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ESCIENCE
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Decentralised Resource Discovery Service for Large Scale Federated Grids
Efficient Resource discovery mechanism is one of the fundamental requirement for Grid computing systems, as it aids in resource management and scheduling of applications. Resourc...
Rajiv Ranjan, Lipo Chan, Aaron Harwood, Shanika Ka...
IOR
2008
91views more  IOR 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
A Randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo Simulation Method for Markov Chains
We introduce and study a randomized quasi-Monte Carlo method for estimating the state distribution at each step of a Markov chain. The number of steps in the chain can be random an...
Pierre L'Ecuyer, Christian Lécot, Bruno Tuf...
JSAC
2006
99views more  JSAC 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
Incentives for large peer-to-peer systems
We consider problems of provisioning an excludable public good amongst n potential members of a peer-to-peer system who are able to communicate information about their private pre...
Costas Courcoubetis, Richard R. Weber
HICSS
2003
IEEE
123views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Issues in Rational Planning in Multi-Agent Settings
We adopt the decision-theoretic principle of expected utility maximization as a paradigm for designing autonomous rational agents operating in multi-agent environments. We use the...
Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz
DBPL
1999
Springer
102views Database» more  DBPL 1999»
14 years 29 days ago
Union Types for Semistructured Data
Semistructured databases are treated as dynamically typed: they come equipped with no independent schema or type system to constrain the data. Query languages that are designed fo...
Peter Buneman, Benjamin C. Pierce