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MOBIHOC
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
IEEE 802.11 MAC, called the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF), employs carrier sensing to effectively avoid collisions, but this makes it difficult to maximally reuse the sp...
HPDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...
ER
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Springer
It is increasingly recognised that user preferences should be addressed in many advanced database applications, such as adaptive searching in databases. However, the fundamental is...
LION
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper is about Reinforcement Learning (RL) applied to online parameter tuning in Stochastic Local Search (SLS) methods. In particular a novel application of RL is considered i...
MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Springer
In this paper we consider the problem of maximising utility in linked market-driven distributed and Grid systems. In such systems, users submit jobs through brokers who can virtua...