Consider the classical online scheduling problem where jobs that arrive one by one are assigned to identical parallel machines with the objective of minimizing the makespan. We gen...
We study the online problem of holding a number of idle threads on an application server, which we have ready for processing new requests. The problem stems from the fact that bot...
This paper presents a novel game-like advertising system called GameSense, which is driven by the compelling contents of online images. Given a Web page which typically contains i...
In the field of eLearning systems, several systems have been implemented in order to create a virtual university or virtual training center. By connecting several virtual universit...
Recent decision-theoric planning algorithms are able to find optimal solutions in large problems, using Factored Markov Decision Processes (fmdps). However, these algorithms need ...
Thomas Degris, Olivier Sigaud, Pierre-Henri Wuille...