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INFOCOM
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Application-aware Admission Control and Scheduling in Web Servers
— 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...
Jakob Carlström, Raphael Rom
COLT
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Adapting to a Changing Environment: the Brownian Restless Bandits
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...
Aleksandrs Slivkins, Eli Upfal
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Novel metaheuristic for parameter estimation in nonlinear dynamic biological systems
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. ...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Multi-Stage Investment Decision under Contingent Demand for Networking Planning
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...
JCNS
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
The role of synaptic facilitation in spike coincidence detection
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...
Jorge F. Mejías, Joaquín J. Torres