This paper investigates the problem of Partitioning Skew1 in MapReduce-based system. Our studies with Hadoop, a widely used MapReduce implementation, demonstrate that the presence ...
Shadi Ibrahim, Hai Jin, Lu Lu, Song Wu, Bingsheng ...
Packet scheduling in networks with quality of service constraints has been extensively studied as a single criterion scheduling problem. The assumption underlying single criterion ...
Streaming high quality audio/video (AV) from home media sources to TV sets over a wireless local area network (WLAN) is a challenging problem because of the fluctuating bandwidth...
Decentralized Markov decision processes are frequently used to model cooperative multi-agent systems. In this paper, we identify a subclass of general DEC-MDPs that features regul...
Search engine quality is impacted by two factors: the quality of the ranking/matching algorithm used and the freshness of the search engine’s index, which maintains a “snapsho...
Jie Xu, Qinglan Li, Huiming Qu, Alexandros Labrini...