In mobile teamwork environments two basic problems exist: how to discover someone based on a profile (skills, reputations) and how to assess that person’s “credibility” (tr...
When something unexpected happens in a large production system, administrators must first perform a search to isolate which components and component interactions are likely to be...
The aim of this discussion paper is to stimulate (or perhaps to provoke) stronger interactions among theoreticians and practitioners interested in efficient problem solutions. We ...
We consider the problem of approximating a convex gure in the plane by a pair (r; R) of homothetic (that is, similar and parallel) rectangles with r C R. We show the existenc...
We consider the problem of scheduling on parallel uniformly related machines, where preemptions are allowed and the machines are controlled by selfish agents. Our goal is to minimi...