Abstract This paper introduces a bottleneck game with finite sets of commuters and departing time slots as an extension congestion games Konishi et al. (J Econ Theory 72:225–237, 1997a). After characterizing Nash equilibrium the game, we provide sufficient conditions for which equivalence between strong equilibria holds. Somewhat surprisingly, unlike in games, pure strategies may often fail to ...

The possibility of using flexible and cost-efficient commodity hardware instead of expensive custom hardware has generated wide interest in software routers. Performance measurement and simulation have become important approaches for identifying bottlenecks of such systems to predict and improve the performance. We measure the performance of software routers using current multi-core hardware ar...

An important problem of broadband Internet infrastructures is efficient resource utilisation at access points, while keeping the Quality of Service (QoS) demands of applications stable and optimal. Considering the resource bottleneck of broadband access networks, there is a need for integrated performance management of such networks providing “feedback” from monitoring and analysis of traffic, ...

since reusing waste tire as a cheap filler is considerably high, in this study, recycled rubber to replace nr/br is used up to 15 phr and the positive and negative aspects of the rubber powder and reclaimed rubber in the physical, dynamical and processing properties are evaluated. the results showed that in the presence of recycled rubber, the cure rate, crack growth resistance, tear strength a...

Received 08 November 2016 Accepted 02 December 2017 Abstract—This paper describes a discrete event simulation (DES) methodology for the evaluation and comparison of tenders for highly constrained scheduling problems. What-if scenarios have been implemented via branch and bound search through the DES parameter space to derive best performance configurations for each tendered solution with respec...

Healthcare is expensive and often inaccessible to many. As a result, surgeons must consider simple, less expensiveinterventions when possible. For wound care, an older but quite effective cleaning agent is Dakin’s solution (0.5%sodium hypochlorite), an easily made mixture of 100 milliliters (ml) bleach with 8 teaspoons (tsp) baking soda into agallon of clean water or 25 ml ble...

A run-time monitor shares computational resources, such as memory and CPU time, with the target program. Furthermore, heavy computation performed by a monitor for checking target program's execution with respect to requirement properties can be a bottleneck to the target program's execution. Therefore, computational characteristics of run-time monitoring cause a significant impact on the target...