One of the critical problems in the call center industries is the staffing problem since they must face variable demands and because staff costs represent a major part of the cost...
— We consider the problem of scheduling packets over a number of channels with time varying connectivity. Policies proposed for this problem either stabilize the system when the ...
A software development project coordinates work by using work items that represent customer, tester, and developer found defects, enhancements, and new features. We set out to fac...
We study the number of steps required to reach a pure Nash Equilibrium in a load balancing scenario where each job behaves selfishly and attempts to migrate to a machine which will...
Eyal Even-Dar, Alexander Kesselman, Yishay Mansour
This paper reports on a set of experiments that measure the amount of CPU processing needed to decode MPEGcompressed video in software. These experiments were designed to discover...
Andy C. Bavier, Allen Brady Montz, Larry L. Peters...