Combinatorial Auctions (CAs), where users bid on combination of items, have emerged as a useful tool for resource allocation in distributed systems. However, two main difficulties...
The dream of pervasive multimedia retrieval and reuse will not be realized without incorporating semantics in the multimedia database. As video data is penetrating many informatio...
— Internet traffic is bursty and network servers are often overloaded with surprising events or abnormal client request patterns. This paper studies scheduling algorithms for in...
During day-to-day activities, a user refers to various data items on a PC, such as documents, images, and audio clips. However, when the number of items in the history increases, ...
For many enterprises, reacting to fast changes to their business process is key to maintaining their competitive edge in the market. However, developers often must manually locate...