— This paper presents an architecture and algorithms for optimizing the performance of web services. For a given service, session-based admission control is combined with stage-w...
In the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem there are k distributions associated with the rewards of playing each of k strategies (slot machine arms). The reward distributions are ini...
Background: We consider the problem of parameter estimation (model calibration) in nonlinear dynamic models of biological systems. Due to the frequent ill-conditioning and multi-m...
Maria Rodriguez-Fernandez, Jose A. Egea, Julio R. ...
Telecommunication companies, such as Internet and cellular service providers, are seeing rapid and uncertain growth of traffic routed through their networks. It has become a chall...
Miguel F. Anjos, Michael Desroches, Anwar Haque, O...
Using a realistic model of activity dependent dynamical synapse, which includes both depressing and facilitating mechanisms, we study the conditions in which a postsynaptic neuron...