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A Clean-Slate Look at Disk Scrubbing
A number of techniques have been proposed to reduce the risk of data loss in hard-drives, from redundant disks (e.g., RAID systems) to error coding within individual drives. Disk ...
Alina Oprea, Ari Juels
WSC
2008
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Speeding up call center simulation and optimization by Markov chain uniformization
Staffing and scheduling optimization in large multiskill call centers is time-consuming, mainly because it requires lengthy simulations to evaluate performance measures and their ...
Eric Buist, Wyean Chan, Pierre L'Ecuyer
ACMICEC
2008
ACM
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Why share in peer-to-peer networks?
Prior theory and empirical work emphasize the enormous free-riding problem facing peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing networks. Nonetheless, many P2P networks thrive. We explore two possib...
Lian Jian, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
ATAL
2008
Springer
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Flexible service provisioning with advance agreements
In this paper, we develop a novel algorithm that allows service consumer agents to automatically select and provision service provider agents for their workflows in highly dynamic...
Sebastian Stein, Nicholas R. Jennings, Terry R. Pa...
ATAL
2008
Springer
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Value-based observation compression for DEC-POMDPs
Representing agent policies compactly is essential for improving the scalability of multi-agent planning algorithms. In this paper, we focus on developing a pruning technique that...
Alan Carlin, Shlomo Zilberstein