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PODC
2010
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Brief announcement: a shared disk on distributed storage
A shared disk implementation on distributed storage requires consistent behavior of disk operations. Deterministic consensus on such behavior is impossible when even a single stor...
Stefan Vijzelaar, Herbert Bos, Wan Fokkink
PODC
2010
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
On maintaining multiple versions in STM
An effective way to reduce the number of aborts in software transactional memory (STM) is to keep multiple versions of transactional objects. In this paper, we study inherent prop...
Dmitri Perelman, Rui Fan, Idit Keidar
IJCAI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
The Value of Observation for Monitoring Dynamic Systems
We consider the fundamental problem of monitoring (i.e. tracking) the belief state in a dynamic system, when the model is only approximately correct and when the initial belief st...
Eyal Even-Dar, Sham M. Kakade, Yishay Mansour
IJCAI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Vote and Aggregation in Combinatorial Domains with Structured Preferences
In many real-world collective decision problems, the set of alternatives is a Cartesian product of finite value domains for each of a given set of variables. The prohibitive size...
Jérôme Lang
AAAI
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Targeting Specific Distributions of Trajectories in MDPs
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...