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INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
Reverse-engineering BitTorrent: A Markov approximation perspective
Abstract—BitTorrent has been the most popular P2P (Peer-toPeer) paradigm during recent years. Built upon great intuition, the piece-selection and neighbor-selection modules roote...
Ziyu Shao, Hao Zhang, Minghua Chen, Kannan Ramchan...
APDC
1997
13 years 10 months ago
A Parallel Algorithm for Optimal Task Assignment in Distributed Systems
' An efficient assignment of tasks to the processors is imperative for achieving a fast job turnaround time in a parallel or distributed enviornment. The assignment problem is...
Ishfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Kafil
NIPS
2000
13 years 10 months ago
Using Free Energies to Represent Q-values in a Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Task
The problem of reinforcement learning in large factored Markov decision processes is explored. The Q-value of a state-action pair is approximated by the free energy of a product o...
Brian Sallans, Geoffrey E. Hinton
ICTAI
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Java-Based Distributed Genetic Algorithm Framework
Distributed Genetic Algorithm (DGA) is one of the most promising choices among the optimization methods. In this paper we describe DGAFrame, a flexible framework for evolutionary...
Gabi Escuela, Yudith Cardinale, Jorge Gonzá...
ICPP
1999
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
The Index-Permutation Graph Model for Hierarchical Interconnection Networks
In this paper, we present the index-permutation (IP) graph model, and apply it to the systematic development of efficient hierarchical networks. We derive several classes of inter...
Chi-Hsiang Yeh, Behrooz Parhami