We consider the Offline Ad Slot Scheduling problem, where advertisers must be scheduled to sponsored search slots during a given period of time. Advertisers specify a budget constr...
Jon Feldman, S. Muthukrishnan, Evdokia Nikolova, M...
The vision of ubiquitous computing is becoming a reality thanks to the advent of portable devices and the advances in wireless networking technologies. It aims to facilitate user ...
Grids are intended to enable cross-organizational interactions which makes Grid security a challenging and nontrivial issue. In Grids, delegation is a key facility that can be used...
Mehran Ahsant, Jim Basney, Olle Mulmo, Adam J. Lee...
We present a mechanism for auctioning bandwidth on a network-wide basis to end users or ISPs that will utilize it for the same time period. This mechanism consists of a set of sim...
Manos Dramitinos, George D. Stamoulis, Costas Cour...
Packet filtering firewall is one of the most important mechanisms used by corporations to enforce their security policy. Recent years have seen a lot of research in the area of ...