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JAIR
2006
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Understanding Algorithm Performance on an Oversubscribed Scheduling Application
The best performing algorithms for a particular oversubscribed scheduling application, Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) scheduling, appear to have little in common. Yet...
Laura Barbulescu, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitle...
JPDC
2008
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A Grid-based Virtual Reactor: Parallel performance and adaptive load balancing
This paper addresses the problem of porting distributed parallel applications to the Grid. One of the challenges we address is the change from static homogeneous cluster environmen...
Vladimir Korkhov, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Pet...
JMLR
2006
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Geometric Variance Reduction in Markov Chains: Application to Value Function and Gradient Estimation
We study a sequential variance reduction technique for Monte Carlo estimation of functionals in Markov Chains. The method is based on designing sequential control variates using s...
Rémi Munos
FGCS
2007
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Optimizing Web Service messaging performance in mobile computing
— The performance and efficiency of Web Services can be greatly increased in conversational and streaming message exchanges by streaming the message exchange paradigm. In this pa...
Sangyoon Oh, Geoffrey Fox
GPEM
2007
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Integrating generative growth and evolutionary computation for form exploration
We present a novel means of algorithmically describing a growth process that is an extension of Lindenmayer’s Map L-systems. This growth process relies upon a set of rewrite rule...
Una-May O'Reilly, Martin Hemberg