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SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Group-Guaranteed Channel Capacity in Multimedia Storage Servers
One of the open questions in the design of multimedia storage servers is in what order to serve incoming requests. Given the capability provided by the disk layout and scheduling ...
Athanassios Tsiolis, Mary K. Vernon
ICML
2002
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Hierarchically Optimal Average Reward Reinforcement Learning
Two notions of optimality have been explored in previous work on hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL): hierarchical optimality, or the optimal policy in the space defined by ...
Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Sridhar Mahadevan
CN
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
On the efficiency of fluid simulation of networks
Performance evaluation of computer networks through traditional packet-level simulation is becoming increasingly difficult as networks grow in size along different dimensions. Due...
Daniel R. Figueiredo, Benyuan Liu, Yang Guo, James...
ICNS
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluating Global Optimisation for Data Grids using Replica Location Services
As efforts to develop grid computing solutions gather pace, considerable attention has been directed at defining and addressing technical requirements associated with computationa...
Ernest Sithole, Gerard P. Parr, Sally I. McClean, ...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Commitment-driven distributed joint policy search
Decentralized MDPs provide powerful models of interactions in multi-agent environments, but are often very difficult or even computationally infeasible to solve optimally. Here we...
Stefan J. Witwicki, Edmund H. Durfee