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AGENTS
1997
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Ant-Like Agents for Load Balancing in Telecommunications Networks
This paper describes a novel method of achieving load balancing in telecommunications networks. A simulated network models a typical distribution of calls between arbitrary nodes;...
Ruud Schoonderwoerd, Owen Holland, Janet Bruten
SIGMOD
1994
ACM
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Estimating Page Fetches for Index Scans with Finite LRU Buffers
We describe an algorithm for estimating the number of page fetches for a partial or complete scan of a B-tree index. The algorithm obtains estimates for the number of page fetches ...
Arun N. Swami, K. Bernhard Schiefer
PERCOM
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Sell your experiences: a market mechanism based incentive for participatory sensing
—This paper studies economic models of user participation incentive in participatory sensing applications. User participation is the most important element in participatory sensi...
Juong-Sik Lee, Baik Hoh
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
APN
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Nested Nets for Adaptive Systems
We consider nested nets, i.e. Petri nets in which tokens can be Petri nets themselves. We study value semantics of nested nets rather than reference semantics, and apply nested ne...
Kees M. van Hee, Irina A. Lomazova, Olivia Oanea, ...