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Work disruptions may derail scientific research projects by interrupting the flow of work and information transfer. In this study, we explore the interruptibility of scientific researchers and its correlation with contextual factors such as deadlines, ...

Advancements in cloud computing have boosted Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS), highlighting the challenge of scheduling tasks under latency and deadline constraints. Neural network compression offers the latency and energy consumption reduction in ...

We analyze the impact of deadline policies on student submission timeliness and success in a self-paced online programming course. The course is for learning a second language (C) after Java or Python and assumes some knowledge of data structures. It ...

Increasing demand for computationally intensive jobs on mobile devices is driving interest in computation offloading to the edge/cloud servers. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for managing offloading of stochastic and heterogeneous user(s)-...

We consider the problem of online service with delay on a general metric space, first presented by Azar, Ganesh, Ge and Panigrahi (STOC 2017). The best known randomized algorithm for this problem, by Azar and Touitou (FOCS 2019), is O(log² n)-...

Paper and proposal deadlines are important milestones, conjuring up emotional memories to researchers. The question is if in the daily challenging world of scholarly research, deadlines truly incur higher sympathetic loading than the alternative. Here ...

Many goals people have, like getting into shape or getting good grades on important exams, require small daily deferrable efforts, like exercising or studying. To help people sustain these efforts over time, behavioral research explored the use of ...

Course exercises are typically given so that the time it takes to finish them fits in the time constraints of the academic system. Exercises come with deadlines that are considered to help students plan their schedules and consequently help get the ...

In higher education institutions, web surveys are frequently used for educational, research, and administrative purposes. One of the consequences of this is increasing oversurveying of higher education students, leading to low response rates. This ...

This paper presents the results of two natural field experiments at a dental clinic. Guided by a simple theoretical model, we exogenously vary deadlines and associated rewards for arranging checkup appointments. Our data show strong and systematic effects ...

In an EV charging facility, with multiple vehicles requesting charge simultaneously, scheduling becomes crucial to provide adequate service under vehicle sojourn time constraints. However, these departure times may not be known accurately, and typical ...

How students are assessed has a powerful effect on their strategies for studying and their learning. When designing assessments, instructors should consider how different approaches for providing feedback to students could encourage positive learning ...

In this paper, we analyze the performance of the EDF scheduling policy for charging electrical vehicles when the exact deadlines are not known by the scheduler. Instead, they are declared by users. We quantify the effect of this uncertainty in a mean ...

An increased growth in time-critical IoT applications, led to a rise in real-time resource requirements. The stringent deadlines on latency have made IoT applications move out from far away cloud servers to distributed fog computing devices infrastructure ...

We investigate minimal and locally edge minimal fluid models for real-time resource-sharing networks, which are natural counterparts of pathwise minimal and locally edge minimal performance processes for the corresponding real-time stochastic systems. The ...

Deadlines are constitutional aspects of research life that the CHI community frequently observes. Despite their importance, deadlines are understudied. Here we bring a mixed art and science perspective on deadlines, which may find broader applications ...

Programming assignments are a common form of assessment in introductory courses and often require substantial work to complete. Students must therefore plan and manage their time carefully, especially leading up to published deadlines. Although time ...

In the contention-resolution problem, multiple players contend for access to a shared resource. Contention resolution is used in wireless networks, where messages must be transmitted on a shared communication channel. When two or more messages are ...

In “Deadlines, Timing, and the Search for Alternatives,” S. Zorc and I. Tsetlin consider decentralized matching markets like the job market for MBAs. They show that exploding offers (ones with a very short deadline) are often optimal. The benefit of those ...

We model two agents who can benefit from a mutual deal or partnership, yet are also searching for outside alternatives. This generic situation is observed in various settings (e.g., the job market for experts) and involves several decisions. The proposer ...

In this paper we present our vision for a two-level, distributed resource allocator that preserves fairness and satisfies deadlines of low latency workloads in a multi-cloudlet environment with offloading support. We analyze the opportunities and ...