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SIROCCO
2008
15 years 7 months ago
Sharpness: A Tight Condition for Scalability
: A distributed system is scalable if the rate at which it completes its computation and communication tasks does not depend on its size. As an example, the scalability of a peer-t...
Augustin Chaintreau
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
On the benefits of decomposing policy engines into components
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
Konstantin Beznosov
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Transparent Information Dissemination
This paper explores integrating self-tuning updates and sequential consistency to enable transparent replication of large-scale information dissemination services. We focus our at...
Amol Nayate, Michael Dahlin, Arun Iyengar
CDC
2009
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
Q-learning and Pontryagin's Minimum Principle
Abstract— Q-learning is a technique used to compute an optimal policy for a controlled Markov chain based on observations of the system controlled using a non-optimal policy. It ...
Prashant G. Mehta, Sean P. Meyn
ICFP
2008
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Implicitly-threaded parallelism in Manticore
The increasing availability of commodity multicore processors is making parallel computing available to the masses. Traditional parallel languages are largely intended for large-s...
Matthew Fluet, Mike Rainey, John H. Reppy, Adam Sh...