Parking in crowded urban areas is a precious resource that impacts driver stress levels, daily productivity, and the environment. A reservation system that enables individuals to buy parking spots prior to leaving their home would significantly ease these concerns. However, designing an infrastructure for guaranteed parking requires extensive sensor deployment and manpower, which is expensive a...

Media production networks require an e cient collaboration between geographically distributed actors and o er predictable workloads, making it possible to exploit this predictability and use advance bandwidth reservation services to achieve greater bandwidth utilization and service guarantees. To o er reliable reservations, the incorporation of fault-tolerance related features in bandwidth rese...

Electric vehicles (EVs) are being introduced by different manufacturers, thanks to their environment-friendly perspective alleviate CO 2 pollution. In this paper, the proposed EV charging management scheme enables pre-empted service for heterogeneous EVs (depends on capabilities, brands, etc.). ...

We propose a model of price formation in Double Auction markets which employs the strong simplifying assumption that agents neglect strategic feedback effects and regard themselves as playing a Game against Nature. Agents otherwise are strict expected utihty maximizers employing Bayesian updating procedures. We prove the optimality of simple (‘aggressive reservation price’) strategies in our ge...

In this paper we investigate filesystem support for continuous media on the Java language. We describe a prototype implementation on a Real-Time Java Server developed as an application-level server on the Real-Time Mach microkernel environment. Java virtual machine has been extended to support filesystem bandwidth reservation facilities existing on Real-Time Mach. Such facilities allow continuo...