The World-Wide-Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is presented in loosely structured natural language text with no agent-readable semantics...
Due to inherent privacy concerns, online personalization services such as those offered through toolbars and desktop widgets are characterized by "no-free-disposal" (NFD...
Virtual machine (VM) memory allocation and VM consolidation can benefit from the prediction of VM page miss rate at each candidate memory size. Such prediction is challenging for...
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...
Scientific workflows in Life Sciences are usually complex, and use many online databases, analysis tools, publication repositories and customized computation intensive desktop sof...