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JSA
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Scheduling tasks sharing files on heterogeneous master-slave platforms
This paper is devoted to scheduling a large collection of independent tasks onto heterogeneous clusters. The tasks depend upon (input) files which initially reside on a master pro...
Arnaud Giersch, Yves Robert, Frédéri...
PODC
1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Optimal, Distributed Decision-Making: The Case of no Communication
We present a combinatorial framework for the study of a natural class of distributed optimization problems that involve decisionmaking by a collection of n distributed agents in th...
Marios Mavronicolas, Paul G. Spirakis
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
An approach to efficient planning with numerical fluents and multi-criteria plan quality
Dealing with numerical information is practically important in many real-world planning domains where the executability of an action can depend on certain numerical conditions, an...
Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina
CF
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Space-and-time efficient garbage collectors for parallel systems
As multithreaded server applications and runtime systems prevail, garbage collection is becoming an essential feature to support high performance systems. The fundamental issue of...
Shaoshan Liu, Ligang Wang, Xiao-Feng Li, Jean-Luc ...
UAI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Pre-Selection of Independent Binary Features: An Application to Diagnosing Scrapie in
Suppose that the only available information in a multi-class problem are expert estimates of the conditional probabilities of occurrence for a set of binary features. The aim is t...
Ludmila I. Kuncheva, Christopher J. Whitaker, Pete...