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RSA
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
The persistent-access-caching algorithm
ABSTRACT: Caching is widely recognized as an effective mechanism for improving the performance of the World Wide Web. One of the key components in engineering the Web caching syste...
Predrag R. Jelenkovic, Ana Radovanovic
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Oracular Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes: A Very Special Case
— We introduce the Oracular Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (OPOMDP), a type of POMDP in which the world produces no observations; instead there is an “oracle,” ...
Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Manuela M. Veloso
TVLSI
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A Fuzzy Optimization Approach for Variation Aware Power Minimization During Gate Sizing
Abstract--Technology scaling in the nanometer era has increased the transistor's susceptibility to process variations. The effects of such variations are having a huge impact ...
Venkataraman Mahalingam, N. Ranganathan, J. E. Har...
DAGSTUHL
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Decentralization and Mechanism Design for Online Machine Scheduling
We study the online version of the classical parallel machine scheduling problem to minimize the total weighted completion time from a new perspective: We assume that the data of ...
Birgit Heydenreich, Rudolf Müller, Marc Uetz
NIPS
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Gradient Descent for General Reinforcement Learning
A simple learning rule is derived, the VAPS algorithm, which can be instantiated to generate a wide range of new reinforcementlearning algorithms. These algorithms solve a number ...
Leemon C. Baird III, Andrew W. Moore