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ICAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Towards Autonomic Virtual Applications in the In-VIGO System
Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
Jing Xu, Sumalatha Adabala, José A. B. Fort...
TWC
2010
13 years 3 months ago
On the Impact of Channel Estimation Errors on MAC Protocols for MIMO Ad Hoc Networks
In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for MIMO ad hoc networks under imperfect channel estimation. To this end, we also present an an...
Davide Chiarotto, Paolo Casari, Michele Zorzi
BIOWIRE
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Epcast: Controlled Dissemination in Human-Based Wireless Networks Using Epidemic Spreading Models
Epidemics-inspired techniques have received huge attention in recent years from the distributed systems and networking communities. These algorithms and protocols rely on probabili...
Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musoles...
CONCUR
1998
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Algebraic Techniques for Timed Systems
Performance evaluation is a central issue in the design of complex real-time systems. In this work, we propose an extension of socalled "Max-Plus" algebraic techniques to...
Albert Benveniste, Claude Jard, Stephane Gaubert
JAIR
2000
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13 years 9 months ago
An Application of Reinforcement Learning to Dialogue Strategy Selection in a Spoken Dialogue System for Email
This paper describes a novel method by which a spoken dialogue system can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy from its experience interacting with human users. The method...
Marilyn A. Walker