Under the environment of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), service users have to decide how to choose the proper provider from the candidates to obtain optimal service level. Th...
Optimization in sports is a field of increasing interest. A novel problem in sports management is the Referee Assignment Problem, in which a limited number of referees with differe...
Alexandre R. Duarte, Celso C. Ribeiro, Sebasti&aac...
This paper addresses the pursuit-evasion problem of maintaining surveillance by a pursuer of an evader in a world populated by polygonal obstacles. This requires the pursuer to pl...
Rafael Murrieta-Cid, Teja Muppirala, Alejandro Sar...
The group-buying auction is a new kind of dynamic pricing mechanism on the Internet. It is a variant of the sellers' price double auction, which makes the bidders as a group t...
Abstract--Virtualization technology facilitates a dynamic, demanddriven allocation and migration of servers. This paper studies how the flexibility offered by network virtualizatio...
Dushyant Arora, Anja Feldmann, Gregor Schaffrath, ...