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COLT
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Adapting to a Changing Environment: the Brownian Restless Bandits
In the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem there are k distributions associated with the rewards of playing each of k strategies (slot machine arms). The reward distributions are ini...
Aleksandrs Slivkins, Eli Upfal
ANOR
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Scheduling vessels and container-yard operations with conflicting objectives
Abstract We consider the problem of coordinating the operations of two supply chain partners: a foreign shipping company and a domestic port. The two partners have conflicting busi...
Endre Boros, Lei Lei, Yao Zhao, Hua Zhong
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Best-effort semantic document search on GPUs
Semantic indexing is a popular technique used to access and organize large amounts of unstructured text data. We describe an optimized implementation of semantic indexing and docu...
Surendra Byna, Jiayuan Meng, Anand Raghunathan, Sr...
TSP
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Optimization and analysis of distributed averaging with short node memory
Distributed averaging describes a class of network algorithms for the decentralized computation of aggregate statistics. Initially, each node has a scalar data value, and the goal...
Boris N. Oreshkin, Mark Coates, Michael G. Rabbat
ACSAC
2010
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Friends of an enemy: identifying local members of peer-to-peer botnets using mutual contacts
In this work we show that once a single peer-to-peer (P2P) bot is detected in a network, it may be possible to efficiently identify other members of the same botnet in the same ne...
Baris Coskun, Sven Dietrich, Nasir D. Memon