In this work we present a protocol ensuring the eTransaction guarantee (i.e. a recently proposed end-to-end reliability guarantee) in a Web based, three-tier transactional system....
We consider server scheduling strategies to minimize average flow time in a multicast pull system where data items have uniform size. The algorithm Longest Wait First (LWF) always...
This paper considers an on-line scheduling problem occurred in a service system with two classes (normal and special) of customers and two types (dedicated and flexible) of serve...
Abstract. Despite their crucial impact on the performances of p2p systems, very few is known on peers behaviors in such networks. We propose here a study of these behaviors in a ru...
Motivated by the emergence of auction-based marketplaces for display ads such as the Right Media Exchange, we study the design of a bidding agent that implements a display adverti...
Arpita Ghosh, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein, Sergei Va...