Efficient job scheduling in grids is challenging due to the large number of distributed autonomous resources. In this paper we study various resource allocation policies in a 2-le...
Policy search is a successful approach to reinforcement learning. However, policy improvements often result in the loss of information. Hence, it has been marred by premature conv...
Many real-time systems need to maintain fresh views which are derived from shared data that are distributed among multiple sites. When a base data item changes, all derived views ...
— With the rapid increasing capacity of flash chips, flash-aware indexing techniques are highly desirable for flash devices. The unique features of flash memory, such as the ...
Securing data is becoming a crucial need for most internet-based applications. Whereas the problem of data confidentiality has been widely investigated, the problem of how to ens...
Yunhua Koglin, Giovanni Mella, Elisa Bertino, Elen...