Abstract: Information overflow is one of the greatest challenges for information focused professions today. This paper presents the Personal Information Agent, an agent based info...
Security mechanisms such as firewalls commonly deployed throughout the Internet present serious obstacles to basic usage of Mobile IP. In this paper we describe how IP security me...
Reinhard Ruppelt, Andrei Pelinescu, Cristian Const...
In this paper we study the job shop scheduling problem under the assumption that the jobs have controllable processing times. The fact that the jobs have controllable processing t...
Klaus Jansen, Monaldo Mastrolilli, Roberto Solis-O...
We study integrated prefetching and caching in single and parallel disk systems. A recent approach used linear programming to solve the problem. We show that integrated prefetching...
We discuss two approximation approaches, the primal-dual schema and the local-ratio technique. We present two relatively simple frameworks, one for each approach, which extend know...