In this paper, we discuss and compare several policies to place replicas in tree networks, subject to server capacity constraints. The client requests are known beforehand, while ...
— Emerging network applications tend to be built over heterogeneous network resources spanning multiple management domains. Many such applications have dynamic demands for dedica...
Xi Yang, Tom Lehman, Chris Tracy, Jerry Sobieski, ...
Abstract. Approximate Policy Iteration (API) is a reinforcement learning paradigm that is able to solve high-dimensional, continuous control problems. We propose to exploit API for...
Peer-to-peer are popular environments for exchanging services. A reputation mechanism is a proper means of discovering low-performing peers that fail to provide their services. In...
Dynamic Power Management (DPM) is a design methodology aiming at reducing power consumption of electronic systems by performing selective shutdown of idle system resources. The eff...