— In many networked applications, independent caching agents cooperate by servicing each other’s miss streams, without revealing the operational details of the caching mechanis...
: Nonnegative matrix approximation (NNMA) is a popular matrix decomposition technique that has proven to be useful across a diverse variety of fields with applications ranging from...
This paper addresses the problem of selection and discovery of a consistent availability monitoring overlay for computer hosts in a large-scale distributed application, where host...
This paper addresses the problem of minimizing the average running time of the Las Vegas type algorithm, both in serial and parallel setups. The necessary conditions for the exist...
Oleg V. Shylo, Timothy Middelkoop, Panos M. Pardal...
We examine the theoretical and numerical global convergence properties of a certain "gradient free" stochastic approximation algorithm called the "simultaneous pertu...