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WSC
2001
13 years 8 months ago
2001
We address performance issues associated with simulationbased algorithms for optimizing Markov reward processes. Specifically, we are concerned with algorithms that exploit the re...
NECO
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Learning agents, whether natural or artificial, must update their internal parameters in order to improve their behavior over time. In reinforcement learning, this plasticity is ...
WOSP
2004
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
2004
ACM
Peer-to-peer, or simply P2P, systems have recently emerged as a popular paradigm for building distributed applications. One key aspect of the P2P system design is the mechanism us...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2007
IEEE
We present new techniques for explicit constraint satisfaction in the incremental placement process. Our algorithm employs a Lagrangian Relaxation (LR) type approach in the analyt...
CISIS
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
2011
IEEE
—Computational performance increasingly depends on parallelism, and many systems rely on heterogeneous resources such as GPUs and FPGAs to accelerate computationally intensive ap...