In a M/M/N+M queue, when there are many customers waiting, it may be preferable to reject a new arrival rather than risk that arrival later abandoning without receiving service. O...
To ensure that a trust negotiation succeeds whenever possible, authorization policy compliance checkers must be able to find all minimal sets of their owners' credentials tha...
We consider the problem of rate allocation in a fading Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) with fixed transmission powers. Our goal is to maximize a general concave utility func...
Ali ParandehGheibi, Atilla Eryilmaz, Asuman E. Ozd...
Abstract--In many flexible manufacturing systems, batch production is often adopted to improve product quality. For example, in automotive paint shops, vehicles with same colors ar...
Junwen Wang, Jingshan Li, Jorge Arinez, Stephan Bi...
In this paper, we study the dynamic production location decisions of a manufacturer of a certain branded product. Considering brand-image as a form of goodwill, we extend the well...
Gila E. Fruchter, Eugene D. Jaffe, Israel D. Neben...