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APPROX
2006
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
2006
Springer
Motivated by applications in batch scheduling of jobs in manufacturing systems and distributed computing, we study two related problems. Given is a set of jobs {J1, . . . , Jn}, w...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Springer
Recent work in transfer learning has succeeded in making reinforcement learning algorithms more efficient by incorporating knowledge from previous tasks. However, such methods typ...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2009
ACM
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
KDD
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2008
ACM
Information diffusion, viral marketing, and collective classification all attempt to model and exploit the relationships in a network to make inferences about the labels of nodes....
SRDS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Distributed storage systems often use data replication to mask failures and guarantee high data availability. Node failures can be transient or permanent. While the system must ge...