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PRDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An Early-Stopping Protocol for Computing Aggregate Functions in Sensor Networks
Abstract—In this paper, we study algebraic aggregate computations in Sensor Networks. The main contribution is the presentation of an early-stopping protocol that computes the av...
Antonio Fernández Anta, Miguel A. Mosteiro,...
IPPS
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
The Timewheel Group Membership Protocol
Abstract. We describe a group membership protocol, called the timewheel group membership protocol, for a timed asynchronous distributed system. This protocol is a part of the timew...
Shivakant Mishra, Christof Fetzer, Flaviu Cristian
AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Hierarchical multi-agent reinforcement learning
In this paper, we investigate the use of hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) to speed up the acquisition of cooperative multi-agent tasks. We introduce a hierarchical multi-a...
Rajbala Makar, Sridhar Mahadevan, Mohammad Ghavamz...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Consistency-preserving caching of dynamic database content
With the growing use of dynamic web content generated from relational databases, traditional caching solutions for throughput and latency improvements are ineffective. We describe...
Niraj Tolia, M. Satyanarayanan
WSNA
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Information-directed routing in ad hoc sensor networks
—In a sensor network, data routing is tightly coupled to the needs of a sensing task, and hence the application semantics. This paper introduces the novel idea of information-dir...
Juan Liu, Feng Zhao, Dragan Petrovic