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SOSP
2009
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Quincy: fair scheduling for distributed computing clusters
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling concurrent jobs on clusters where application data is stored on the computing nodes. This setting, in which scheduling computations ...
Michael Isard, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Jon Currey, Ud...
ICDCS
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Partial Database Replication using Epidemic Communication
Data replication in distributed databases has been investigated extensively with the hope that it will improve performance, reliability, and availability. However, the growth of t...
JoAnne Holliday, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
IJCAI
2003
15 years 7 months ago
Covariant Policy Search
We investigate the problem of non-covariant behavior of policy gradient reinforcement learning algorithms. The policy gradient approach is amenable to analysis by information geom...
J. Andrew Bagnell, Jeff G. Schneider
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Designing a privacy label: assisting consumer understanding of online privacy practices
This project describes the continuing development of a Privacy Label to present to consumers the ways organizations collect, use, and share personal information. Several studies h...
Patrick Gage Kelley
SP
2003
IEEE
104views Security Privacy» more  SP 2003»
15 years 11 months ago
Using Replication and Partitioning to Build Secure Distributed Systems
A challenging unsolved security problem is how to specify and enforce system-wide security policies; this problem is even more acute in distributed systems with mutual distrust. T...
Lantian Zheng, Stephen Chong, Andrew C. Myers, Ste...