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RSA
2008
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15 years 5 months ago
The persistent-access-caching algorithm
ABSTRACT: Caching is widely recognized as an effective mechanism for improving the performance of the World Wide Web. One of the key components in engineering the Web caching syste...
Predrag R. Jelenkovic, Ana Radovanovic
ICML
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Algorithm-Directed Exploration for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning in Factored MDPs
One of the central challenges in reinforcement learning is to balance the exploration/exploitation tradeoff while scaling up to large problems. Although model-based reinforcement ...
Carlos Guestrin, Relu Patrascu, Dale Schuurmans
ICALP
2010
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Thresholded Covering Algorithms for Robust and Max-min Optimization
The general problem of robust optimization is this: one of several possible scenarios will appear tomorrow, but things are more expensive tomorrow than they are today. What should...
Anupam Gupta, Viswanath Nagarajan, R. Ravi
ANCS
2008
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
On design of bandwidth scheduling algorithms for multiple data transfers in dedicated networks
The significance of high-performance dedicated networks has been well recognized due to the rapidly increasing number of large-scale applications that require high-speed data tran...
Yunyue Lin, Qishi Wu
ICPP
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
LeWI: A Runtime Balancing Algorithm for Nested Parallelism
Abstract—We present LeWI: a novel load balancing algorithm, that can balance applications with very different patterns of imbalance. Our algorithm can balance fine grain imbalan...
Marta Garcia, Julita Corbalán, Jesús...