Jitter buffering is a key component in multimedia and real-time services. A jitter buffer is used at the receiver side to control packet rate and to compensa...

An analytical approach and a control strategy are proposed in Part I of this two-part paper for leveraging the aggregate demand of a population of Thermostat...

There are few systematic methodologies capable of predicting and leveraging the reserve capacity potential of large populations of Thermostatically-Controlle...

Modern power systems are undergoing a transitional phase, increasingly incorporating variable generation (VG) to harness the economic and environmental benef...

Decentralized stochastic control refers to the multi-stage optimization of a dynamical system by multiple controllers that have access to different informati...

In decentralized control systems with linear dynamics, quadratic cost, and Gaussian disturbance (also called decentralized LQG systems) linear control strate...

A reliable and scalable mechanism to provide protection against a link or node failure has additional requirements in the context of SDN and OpenFlow. Not on...

Virtual metrology in quality control deals with drifts in product quality that occur during non-sampling periods. This approach enables a hundred percent con...

Facility location decisions play a critical role in transportation planning. In fact, it has recently become essential to study how such commitment integrate...

Until recently, graph coloring being a computationally difficult problem, completely dynamic channel allocation was not considered in large scale networks. T...

On considère un jeu coopératif à \(n\) joueurs et on utilise la fonction caractéristique \(\delta\) pour évaluer la force stratégique de chacune des coal...

Credit spreads and CDS premiums are investigated before, during and after the financial crisis with a flexible credit risk model. The latter is designed to c...

This paper provides an investigation into an anomaly called a short squeeze, in the CBOT T-Bonds Futures Market, for the period spanning January 1985 to Se...

Oil industry plays currently a major role in the Canadian economy. In the future, further developments of the oil sector will be affected by the ability to t...

Dans cet article, nous introduisons le scrutin de Condorcet randomisé. Notre principale contribution est de le présenter en tant qu'extension naturelle des i...

Including employee preferences in a shift-scheduling scheme raises the question of how to aggregate employee satisfactions in a sensible manner. To do so, we...

In this paper, we propose a differential game model with a coupled constraint to represent the possible effects of climate agreements between industrialized,...

Dans cet article, nous proposons une extension du modèle d'attraction de parts de marché dans un cadre multi-catégories dans le but de considérer l'effet de ...

The Tube Challenge consists of visiting all stations of the London Underground in the least possible time. The competition started in 1959 and the current r...

The airline crew scheduling problem has received extensive attention, particularly in the last sixty years. This problem is frequently divided into crew pair...