This paper presents two new approaches to decomposing and solving large Markov decision problems (MDPs), a partial decoupling method and a complete decoupling method. In these app...
World Wide Web, the biggest distributed system ever built, experiences tremendous growth and change in Web sites, users, and technology. A realistic and accurate characterization ...
Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Fengbin Li, Xuan Wan...
We address the verification problem of finite-state concurrent programs running under weak memory models. These models capture the reordering of program (read and write) operation...
Ahmed Bouajjani, Madanlal Musuvathi, Mohamed Faouz...
The mean running time of a Las Vegas algorithm can often be dramatically reduced by periodically restarting it with a fresh random seed. The optimal restart schedule depends on th...
Matthew J. Streeter, Daniel Golovin, Stephen F. Sm...
This paper describes a particular knowledge acquisition tool for the construction and maintenance of the knowledge model of an intelligent system for emergency management in the fi...