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PPOPP
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Helper locks for fork-join parallel programming
Helper locks allow programs with large parallel critical sections, called parallel regions, to execute more efficiently by enlisting processors that might otherwise be waiting on ...
Kunal Agrawal, Charles E. Leiserson, Jim Sukha
FAST
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Circus: Opportunistic Block Reordering for Scalable Content Servers
Whole-file transfer is a basic primitive for Internet content dissemination. Content servers are increasingly limited by disk arm movement given the rapid growth in disk density, ...
Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Rajiv Wickremesinghe, Je...
ICMCS
2010
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Channel smurfing: Minimising channel switching delay in IPTV distribution networks
One of the major concerns of IPTV network deployment is channel switching (or zapping) delay. This delay can add up to two seconds or more, and its main culprits are synchronisati...
Fernando M. V. Ramos, Jon Crowcroft, Richard J. Gi...
JAIR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm with Non-linear Dynamics
Several multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms have been proposed to optimize agents' decisions. Due to the complexity of the problem, the majority of the previo...
Sherief Abdallah, Victor R. Lesser
JAPLL
2008
91views more  JAPLL 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Undoing the effects of action sequences
In this paper, we study the following basic problem: After having executed a sequence of actions, find a sequence of actions that brings the agent back to the state just before th...
Thomas Eiter, Esra Erdem, Wolfgang Faber