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AAAI
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Decision-Theoretic Control of Crowd-Sourced Workflows
Crowd-sourcing is a recent framework in which human intelligence tasks are outsourced to a crowd of unknown people ("workers") as an open call (e.g., on Amazon's Me...
Peng Dai, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld
ICAS
2006
IEEE
157views Robotics» more  ICAS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Adaptive provisioning using virtual machines and autonomous role-based management
A modern server system must deliver a complex set of obligations towards its users. We study the concept of roles as autonomous encapsulations of a set of promises. Using virtuali...
Kyrre M. Begnum, Mark Burgess, John A. Sechrest
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Reasoning about joint beliefs for execution-time communication decisions
Just as POMDPs have been used to reason explicitly about uncertainty in single-agent systems, there has been recent interest in using multi-agent POMDPs to coordinate teams of age...
Maayan Roth, Reid G. Simmons, Manuela M. Veloso
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
N for the price of 1: bundling web objects for more efficient content delivery
: Persistent connections address inefficiencies associated with multiple concurrent connections. They can improve response time when successfully used with pipelining to retrieve a...
Craig E. Wills, Mikhail Mikhailov, Hao Shang
HPDC
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Remote Application Scheduling on Metacomputing Systems
Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...
Heath A. James, Kenneth A. Hawick