We define TTD-MDPs, a novel class of Markov decision processes where the traditional goal of an agent is changed from finding an optimal trajectory through a state space to realiz...
David L. Roberts, Mark J. Nelson, Charles Lee Isbe...
The Self Distributing Virtual Machine (SDVM) is a parallel computing machine which consists of a cluster of customary computers. The participating machines may have different comp...
Global public computing platforms, such as PlanetLab, grid computing systems, and XenoServers, require facilities for managing trust to allow their participants to interact effect...
High-performance computing faces considerable change as the Internet and the Grid mature. Applications that once were tightly-coupled and monolithic are now decentralized, with co...
Patrick Widener, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, ...
Multihop wireless mesh networks can provide Internet access over a wide area with minimal infrastructure expenditure. In this work, we present a measurement driven deployment stra...
Joseph Camp, Joshua Robinson, Christopher Steger, ...