Abstract— The design of efficient and scalable streaming Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) is an open problem of great economic interest. A key decision is the number of repl...
Sandjai Bhulai, Robert D. van der Mei, Mengxiao Wu
In many optimization problems, one seeks to allocate a limited set of resources to a set of individuals with demands. Thus, such allocations can naturally be viewed as vectors, wi...
Human interaction proofs (HIPs) have become commonplace on the internet for protecting free online services from abuse by automated scripts/bots. They are challenges designed to b...
Kumar Chellapilla, Kevin Larson, Patrice Y. Simard...
We study the problem of minimizing a sum of p-norms where p is a fixed real number in the interval [1, ]. Several practical algorithms have been proposed to solve this problem. How...
In few years, graph cuts have become a leading method for solving a wide range of problems in computer vision. However, graph cuts involve the construction of huge graphs which so...