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2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Designing dependable storage solutions for shared application environments
The costs of data loss and unavailability can be large, so businesses use many data protection techniques, such as remote mirroring, snapshots and backups, to guard against failur...
Shravan Gaonkar, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, W...
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Fault-Tolerant Wireless Access Network Design for Dual-Homed Users
— In this paper, we study the survivability problem in hierarchical wireless access networks with dual-homed end users, who are connected to two base stations (BSs), a primary BS...
Xiaodong Huang, Jianping Wang, Vinod Vokkarane, Ja...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Motivated reinforcement learning for non-player characters in persistent computer game worlds
Massively multiplayer online computer games are played in complex, persistent virtual worlds. Over time, the landscape of these worlds evolves and changes as players create and pe...
Kathryn Elizabeth Merrick, Mary Lou Maher
DATE
2005
IEEE
109views Hardware» more  DATE 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
ISEGEN: Generation of High-Quality Instruction Set Extensions by Iterative Improvement
Customization of processor architectures through Instruction Set Extensions (ISEs) is an effective way to meet the growing performance demands of embedded applications. A high-qua...
Partha Biswas, Sudarshan Banerjee, Nikil D. Dutt, ...
ICTAI
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Planning with POMDPs Using a Compact, Logic-Based Representation
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a general framework for AI planning, but they lack the structure for representing real world planning problems in a...
Chenggang Wang, James G. Schmolze