Abstract a paradigm of modern Machine Learning (ML) which uses rewards and punishments to guide the learning process. One of the central ideas of RL is learning by “direct-online...
A new quality of service (QoS) aware disk scheduling algorithm is presented. It is applicable in environments where data requests arrive with different QoS requirements such as re...
Walid G. Aref, Khaled El-Bassyouni, Ibrahim Kamel,...
In order to detect violations of end-to-end service level agreements (SLA) and to isolate trouble links and nodes based on a unified framework, managers of a service provider net...
We present a theoretical analysis of supervised ranking, providing necessary and sufficient conditions for the asymptotic consistency of algorithms based on minimizing a surrogate...
We present the Auckland Layout Model (ALM), a constraint-based technique for specifying 2D layout as it is used for arranging the controls in a GUI. Most GUI frameworks offer layo...