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COLT
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Adapting to a Changing Environment: the Brownian Restless Bandits
In the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem there are k distributions associated with the rewards of playing each of k strategies (slot machine arms). The reward distributions are ini...
Aleksandrs Slivkins, Eli Upfal
ICDCSW
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Joint Sleep Scheduling and Mode Assignment in Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems
Designing cyber-physical systems with high efficiency, adaptability, autonomy, reliability and usability is a challenging task. In this paper, we focus on minimizing networkwide ...
Chun Jason Xue, Guoliang Xing, Zhaohui Yuan, Zili ...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
142views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Database Virtualization: A New Frontier for Database Tuning and Physical Design
Resource virtualization is currently being employed at all levels of the IT infrastructure to improve provisioning and manageability, with the goal of reducing total cost of owner...
Ahmed A. Soror, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Adaptive Distributed Database Replication Through Colonies of Pogo Ants
We address the problem of optimizing the distribution of partially replicated databases over a computer network. Replication is used to increase data availability in the presence ...
Sarah Abdul-Wahid, Razvan Andonie, Joseph Lemley, ...
WECWIS
2005
IEEE
141views ECommerce» more  WECWIS 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
An Adaptive Bilateral Negotiation Model for E-Commerce Settings
This paper studies adaptive bilateral negotiation between software agents in e-commerce environments. Specifically, we assume that the agents are self-interested, the environment...
Vidya Narayanan, Nicholas R. Jennings