—Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes — the su...
Online advertising is a rapidly growing, multi-billion dollar industry. It has become a significant element of the Web browsing experience. Ad platforms used for ad selection use ...
In this paper we present the Cataclysm server platform for handling extreme overloads in hosted Internet applications. The primary contribution of our work is to develop a low ove...
—We study in this paper the question of determining locations of base stations (BSs) that may belong to the same or to competing service providers, taking into account the impact...
In this work, we propose novel results for the optimization of divergences within the framework of region-based active contours. We focus on parametric statistical models where th...