The importance of the order two Markovian arrival process (MAP(2)) comes from its compactness, serving either as arrival or service process in applications, and from the nice prope...
Levente Bodrog, Peter Buchholz, Jan Kriege, Mikl&o...
Abstract--This paper considers the novel area of quality-ofinformation (QoI)-aware network management of multitasking wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Specifically, it provides an ...
Chi Harold Liu, Chatschik Bisdikian, Joel W. Branc...
Abstract-- Spatial dissemination is a specific form of information dissemination that enables mobile users to send information to other mobile users who are or will appear at a spe...
Bo Xing, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramania...
This paper describes an interactive social agent platform which examines anthropomorphic robot features in the mobile phone usage context. Our system is smart phone based robot age...
We consider collusion in path procurement auctions, where payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show that collusion can increase the utility of the agents, and in som...