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ACMACE
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Motivated reinforcement learning for adaptive characters in open-ended simulation games
Recently a new generation of virtual worlds has emerged in which users are provided with open-ended modelling tools with which they can create and modify world content. The result...
Kathryn Elizabeth Merrick, Mary Lou Maher
WINE
2010
Springer
129views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Optimal Pricing in the Presence of Local Network Effects
We study the optimal pricing strategies of a monopolist selling a divisible good (service) to consumers that are embedded in a social network. A key feature of our model is that c...
Ozan Candogan, Kostas Bimpikis, Asuman E. Ozdaglar
ISCA
2011
IEEE
333views Hardware» more  ISCA 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
The impact of memory subsystem resource sharing on datacenter applications
In this paper we study the impact of sharing memory resources on five Google datacenter applications: a web search engine, bigtable, content analyzer, image stitching, and protoc...
Lingjia Tang, Jason Mars, Neil Vachharajani, Rober...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Early olpc experiences in a rural uruguayan school
In this paper, we discuss children's and teachers' experiences in a small rural town in Uruguay where every child in elementary school has received a laptop from the OLP...
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Daiana Beitler, Fernando Corm...
JPDC
2007
60views more  JPDC 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
The impact of wrong-path memory references in cache-coherent multiprocessor systems
The core of current-generation high-performance multiprocessor systems is out-of-order execution processors with aggressive branch prediction. Despite their relatively high branch...
Resit Sendag, Ayse Yilmazer, Joshua J. Yi, Augustu...