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...
MapReduce offers a flexible programming model for processing and generating large data sets on dedicated resources, where only a small fraction of such resources are every unavaila...
Heshan Lin, Xiaosong Ma, Jeremy S. Archuleta, Wu-c...
This paper presents PrivacyGrid - a framework for supporting anonymous location-based queries in mobile information delivery systems. The PrivacyGrid framework offers three unique...
In Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems, machine owners voluntarily share their unused CPU cycles with guest jobs, as long as the performance degradation is tolerable. For gu...
Tanzima Zerin Islam, Saurabh Bagchi, Rudolf Eigenm...
We present the feasibility evaluation of a structured communication-oriented Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system being used in mobile environments in this paper. The different levels of chu...
Zhonghong Ou, Erkki Harjula, Otso Kassinen, Mika Y...