— Loss networks provide a powerful tool for the analysis and design of many communication and networking systems. It is well known that a large number of loss networks have produ...
In this paper we develop an open queueing network for optimal design of multi-stage assemblies, in which each service station represents a manufacturing or assembly operation. The...
Amir Azaron, Hideki Katagiri, Kosuke Kato, Masatos...
This paper proposes the requirements driven agent collaboration. This proposal assumes that there are plenty different service agents distributed in Internet. When a request for ...
Clusters of networked, off-the-shelf workstations are currently used for computationintensive, parallel applications. However, it is hardly possible to predict the timing behaviou...
This paper focuses on designing incentive mechanisms for overlay multicast systems. Existing proposals on the problem are no longer able to provide proper incentives when rational...