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SIGOPS
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Optimizing information flow in the gossip objects platform
Gossip-based protocols are commonly used for diffusing information in large-scale distributed applications. GO (Gossip Objects) is a per-node gossip platform that we developed in...
Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, Qi Huang, Deepak P. Na...
AI
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Constraint-based optimization and utility elicitation using the minimax decision criterion
In many situations, a set of hard constraints encodes the feasible configurations of some system or product over which multiple users have distinct preferences. However, making su...
Craig Boutilier, Relu Patrascu, Pascal Poupart, Da...
EOR
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Selection of a correlated equilibrium in Markov stopping games
This paper deals with an extension of the concept of correlated strategies to Markov stopping games. The Nash equilibrium approach to solving nonzero-sum stopping games may give m...
David M. Ramsey, Krzysztof Szajowski
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
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14 years 11 months ago
PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multi-parametric Ranked Queries
Users often need to optimize the selection of objects by appropriately weighting the importance of multiple object attributes. Such optimization problems appear often in operation...
Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis Papakonstan...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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14 years 11 months ago
Progressive optimization in a shared-nothing parallel database
Commercial enterprise data warehouses are typically implemented on parallel databases due to the inherent scalability and performance limitation of a serial architecture. Queries ...
Wook-Shin Han, Jack Ng, Volker Markl, Holger Kache...