Assume that a franchise plans to open k branches in a city, so that the average distance from each residential block to the closest branch is minimized. This is an instance of the ...
Irregular applications frequently exhibit poor performance on contemporary computer architectures, in large part because of their inefficient use of the memory hierarchy. Runtime ...
In a pervasive computing environment, one is facing the problem of handling heterogeneous data from different sources, transmitted over heterogeneous channels and presented on het...
Decentralized MDPs provide a powerful formal framework for planning in multi-agent systems, but the complexity of the model limits its usefulness. We study in this paper a class o...
Raphen Becker, Shlomo Zilberstein, Victor R. Lesse...
We study the bandwidth allocation problem Maximize U(x), subject to Ax ≤ c; x ≥ 0 where U is a utility function, x is a bandwidth allocation vector, and Ax ≤ c represent the...