: Making cloud services responsive is critical to providing a compelling user experience. Many largescale sites, including LinkedIn, Digg and Facebook, address this need by deployi...
Learning reusable sequences can support the development of expertise in many domains, either by improving decisionmaking quality or decreasing execution speed. This paper introduc...
It is wellknown that http servers can be programmed easier by using multithreading, i.e. each connection is dealt with by a separate thread. It is also known, e.g. from massively ...
We present a family of methods for speeding up distributed locks by exploiting the uneven distribution of both temporal and spatial locality of access behaviour of many applicatio...
When modeling real-world decision-theoretic planning problems in the Markov decision process (MDP) framework, it is often impossible to obtain a completely accurate estimate of tr...
Karina Valdivia Delgado, Scott Sanner, Leliane Nun...