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HPDC
1998
IEEE
14 years 24 days ago
Matchmaking: Distributed Resource Management for High Throughput Computing
Conventional resource management systems use a system model to describe resources and a centralized scheduler to control their allocation. We argue that this paradigm does not ada...
Rajesh Raman, Miron Livny, Marvin H. Solomon
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Reinforcement learning for DEC-MDPs with changing action sets and partially ordered dependencies
Decentralized Markov decision processes are frequently used to model cooperative multi-agent systems. In this paper, we identify a subclass of general DEC-MDPs that features regul...
Thomas Gabel, Martin A. Riedmiller
INTERACT
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Usability Challenges in Security and Privacy Policy-Authoring Interfaces
Abstract. Policies, sets of rules that govern permission to access resources, have long been used in computer security and online privacy management; however, the usability of auth...
Robert W. Reeder, Clare-Marie Karat, John Karat, C...
ICAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed Stream Management using Utility-Driven Self-Adaptive Middleware
We consider pervasive computing applications that process and aggregate data-streams emanating from highly distributed data sources to produce a stream of updates that have an imp...
Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Karsten Schwan
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Integrated Resource Management for Cluster-based Internet Services
Client request rates for Internet services tend to be bursty and thus it is important to maintain efficient resource utilization under a wide range of load conditions. Network ser...
Kai Shen, Hong Tang, Tao Yang, Lingkun Chu