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SOSP
1997
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
HAC: Hybrid Adaptive Caching for Distributed Storage Systems
This paper presents HAC, a novel technique for managing the client cache in a distributed, persistent object storage system. HAC is a hybrid between page and object caching that c...
Miguel Castro, Atul Adya, Barbara Liskov, Andrew C...
WSC
2000
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Quasi-Monte Carlo methods in cash flow testing simulations
What actuaries call cash flow testing is a large-scale simulation pitting a company's current policy obligation against future earnings based on interest rates. While life co...
Michael G. Hilgers
WSC
2000
15 years 8 months ago
Improved decision processes through simultaneous simulation and time dilation
Simulation models are often not used to their full potential in the decision-making process. The default simulation strategy of simple serial replication of fixed length runs mean...
Paul Hyden, Lee Schruben
AAAI
1996
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Is "Early Commitment" in Plan Generation Ever a Good Idea?
Partial-Order Causal Link planners typically take a "least-commitment" approach to some decisions (notably, step ordering), postponing those decisions until constraints ...
David Joslin, Martha E. Pollack
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AAAI
1996
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Constructive Neural Network Learning Algorithms
Constructive learning algorithms offer an attractive approach for the incremental construction of near-minimal neural-network architectures for pattern classification. They help ov...
Rajesh Parekh, Jihoon Yang, Vasant Honavar