Sciweavers

914 search results - page 132 / 183
» Effective vaccination policies
Sort
View
ICDE
2011
IEEE
274views Database» more  ICDE 2011»
12 years 12 months ago
Collaborative caching for spatial queries in Mobile P2P Networks
Abstract—We propose a novel collaborative caching framework to support spatial query processing in Mobile Peer-toPeer Networks (MP2PNs). To maximize cache sharing among clients, ...
Qijun Zhu, Dik Lun Lee, Wang-Chien Lee
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Q-Decomposition for Reinforcement Learning Agents
The paper explores a very simple agent design method called Q-decomposition, wherein a complex agent is built from simpler subagents. Each subagent has its own reward function and...
Stuart J. Russell, Andrew Zimdars
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
E-imci: improving pediatric health care in low-income countries
Every year almost 10 million children die before reaching the age of five despite the fact that two-thirds of these deaths could be prevented by effective low-cost interventions. ...
Brian DeRenzi, Neal Lesh, Tapan S. Parikh, Clayton...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Electronic voting machines versus traditional methods: improved preference, similar performance
In the 2006 U.S. election, it was estimated that over 66 million people would be voting on direct recording electronic (DRE) systems in 34% of the nation's counties [8]. Alth...
Sarah P. Everett, Kristen K. Greene, Michael D. By...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
150views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Exploiting self-monitoring sample views for cardinality estimation
Good cardinality estimates are critical for generating good execution plans during query optimization. Complex predicates, correlations between columns, and user-defined functions...
Jingren Zhou, Per-Åke Larson, Peter Zabback,...