Usability has often been sold as the silver bullet for solving the problems of unprofitable online stores. Although better usability will generally improve these sites and their p...
We investigate an online version of a basic scheduling problem where a set of jobs has to be scheduled on a number of identical machines so as to minimize the makespan. The job pr...
—A promising method of automating management tasks in computing systems is to formulate them as control or optimization problems in terms of performance metrics. For an online op...
For the problem of online real-time scheduling of jobs on a single processor, previous work presents matching upper and lower bounds on the competitive ratio that can be achieved ...
This paper considers the problems of admission control and virtual circuit routing in high performance computing and communication systems. Admission control and virtual circuit r...
Baruch Awerbuch, Rainer Gawlick, Frank Thomson Lei...