We propose both robust and data-driven approaches to a fluid model of call centers that incorporates random arrival rates with abandonment to determine staff levels and dynamic ro...
BGP routing policies are mainly used by network operators to enforce business relationships between Autonomous Systems (AS), and to prefer some routes over others. In this paper, ...
Laurent Vanbever, Bruno Quoitin, Olivier Bonaventu...
The Border Gateway Protocol, BGP, is currently the only interdomain routing protocol employed on the Internet. As required of any interdomain protocol, BGP allows policy-based met...
Timothy Griffin, F. Bruce Shepherd, Gordon T. Wilf...
This paper addresses the problem of identifying likely topics of texts by their position in the text. It describes the automated training and evaluation of an Optimal Position Pol...
— Some commonly used inter-domain-routing policies—e.g., those using BGP’s MED attribute for cold-potato routing—are beyond the scope of routing theory developed to date. T...