Considering the modern internet traffic rates, the network architecture is of particular importance as the running services itself. On the other hand, due to the increasing complexity and black-box structure of the available ...

This study analyzes a damaged-goods market for a perfectly durable good in an infinite-horizon, discrete-time game. We characterize Markov perfect equilibria of this game under different buyer upgrade possibilities as a ...

A data processing network is as a set of (software) components connected through communication channels to apply a series of operations on data. Realization and maintenance of large-scale data processing networks necessitate ...

Recent years have seen the introduction of a “marketing dashboard” that brings the firm’s key marketing metrics into a single display. Service firms across industries have created such dashboards either by themselves or ...

Relational database schemas are subject to change. For instance, columns of a table can be modified, deleted or extended. These changes have an impact on the source code that utilizes the corresponding table. They also ...

Today's HTTP adaptive streaming solutions use a variety of algorithms to measure the available network bandwidth and predict its future values. Bandwidth prediction, which is already a difficult task, must be more accurate ...

This paper proposes a data-driven matching algorithm for the problem of ride pooling, which is a transportation mode enabling people to share a vehicle for a trip. The problem is considered as a variant of matching problem, ...

Human comfort is the most important priority in designing living environments. Achieving thermal comfort, visual comfort, effective operation of a building along with innovative energy efficiency measures require extensive ...