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IPPS
2007
IEEE
16 years 28 days ago
Adaptive Distributed Database Replication Through Colonies of Pogo Ants
We address the problem of optimizing the distribution of partially replicated databases over a computer network. Replication is used to increase data availability in the presence ...
Sarah Abdul-Wahid, Razvan Andonie, Joseph Lemley, ...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
16 years 28 days ago
Scheduling Issues in Optimistic Parallelization
Irregular applications, which rely on pointer-based data structures, are often difficult to parallelize. The inputdependent nature of their execution means that traditional paral...
Milind Kulkarni, Keshav Pingali
LICS
2007
IEEE
16 years 27 days ago
Limits of Multi-Discounted Markov Decision Processes
Markov decision processes (MDPs) are controllable discrete event systems with stochastic transitions. The payoff received by the controller can be evaluated in different ways, dep...
Hugo Gimbert, Wieslaw Zielonka
MSS
2007
IEEE
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16 years 27 days ago
The RAM Enhanced Disk Cache Project (REDCAP)
This paper presents the RAM Enhanced Disk Cache Project, REDCAP, a new cache of disk blocks which reduces the read I/O time by using a small portion of the main memory. The essent...
Pilar Gonzalez-Ferez, Juan Piernas, Toni Cortes
PG
2007
IEEE
16 years 27 days ago
Line Drawing as a Dynamic Process
We introduce a novel mechanism for creating line drawings from three-dimensional models, which captures the dynamic nature of the drawing process. The approach takes into account ...
Donald H. House, Mayank Singh