We study firm's strategy to determine its product price and warranty period, and plan the spare parts manufacturing so as to maximize its profit and at the same time to fulfi...
Abstract In recent years, many approaches to indexing XML data have appeared. These approaches attempt to process XML queries efficiently and sufficient query plans are built for t...
Previous work in multiagent coordination has addressed the challenge of planning in domains where agents must optimize a global goal, while satisfying local resource constraints. ...
Emma Bowring, Zhengyu Yin, Rob Zinkov, Milind Tamb...
We present a QoS management framework that enables us to quantitatively measure QoS, and to analytically plan and allocate resources. In this model, end users' quality prefer...
Chen Lee, John P. Lehoczky, Ragunathan Rajkumar, D...
In this paper, we address the server selection problem for streaming applications on the Internet. The architecture we consider is similar to the content distribution networks con...