Heterogeneity has been considered in scheduling, but without taking into account the temporal variation of completion times of the sub-tasks for a divisible, independent task. In ...
We describe a reputation-driven market that motivates human computation sellers (workers) to produce optimal levels of quality when quality is not immediately measurable and contr...
Many individual instructors--and, in some cases, entire universities--are gravitating towards the use of comprehensive learning management systems (LMSs), such as Blackboard and M...
: Embedded Computer-based Systems are becoming highly complex and hard to implement because of the large number of concerns the designers have to address. These systems are tightly...
We consider a plant the dynamics of which switch among a family of systems. Each of these systems has a single stable equilibrium point. We assume that a constraint region for the...