On weighted balls-into-bins games

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 409, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 511-520

  Berenbrink, Petra ^a   Friedetzky, Tom ^b   Hu, Zengjian ^a   Martin, Russell ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balls into bins games; Random resource allocation; Weighted balls

Indexed keywords

BINS; GAME THEORY; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

BALLS-INTO-BINS GAMES; EXPECTED LOADS; LOAD BALANCING; RANDOM RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS; RUNNING TIMES; WEIGHTED BALLS;

SPHERES;

EID: 55949093997     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2008.09.023     Document Type: Article

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