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WECWIS
2005
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
2005
IEEE
Many e-services are time-sensitive as the users request them for a specific time period. Such services need to be repeatedly offered to keep them constantly utilized. This paper s...
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SODA
2004
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
2004
ACM
We consider server scheduling strategies to minimize average flow time in a multicast pull system where data items have uniform size. The algorithm Longest Wait First (LWF) always...
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IPL
2008
15 years 6 months ago
2008
We consider a server location problem with only one server to move. In this paper we assume that a request is given as a region and that the service can be done anywhere inside th...
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GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
2009
IEEE
— This paper studies an auction based allocation of network resources for short-term contracts for heterogeneous network services. The combinatorial winner selection yields the o...
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HICSS
2005
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
2005
IEEE
Contracting out government services, especially IT services, has accelerated in recent years in the United States. Based on literature in privatization and contracting out, the au...