The Erlang formula is known to be insensitive to the holding time distribution beyond the mean. While calls are generally assumed to arrive as a Poisson process, we prove that it ...
This article aims to focus on self-regulation mechanisms that are exercised by virtual communities in order to maintain their boundaries of autonomy while directing behavior of th...
We discuss potential market mechanisms for the GRID. A complete dynamical model of a GRID market is defined with three types of agents. Providers, middlemen and users exchange uni...
Uli Harder, Peter G. Harrison, Maya Paczuski, Teja...
This paper presents an auction system based on mobile agents. By using a proxy server, a user can generate a mobile auction agent by giving the bidding information, including the ...
Abstract--This paper presents a novel method for automatically classifying consumer video clips based on their soundtracks. We use a set of 25 overlapping semantic classes, chosen ...