Decentralized Markov decision processes are frequently used to model cooperative multi-agent systems. In this paper, we identify a subclass of general DEC-MDPs that features regul...
Although there have been many recent studies on the mining of sequential patterns in a static database and in a database with increasing data, these works, in general, do not fully...
Exact substring matching queries on large data collections can be answered using q-gram indices, that store for each occurring q-byte pattern an (ordered) posting list with the po...
Disk subsystem is known to be a major contributor to overall power consumption of high-end parallel systems. Past research proposed several architectural level techniques to reduc...
Seung Woo Son, Guangyu Chen, Mahmut T. Kandemir, A...
Minimizing Waiting Time Variance (WTV) is a job scheduling problem where we schedule a batch of n jobs, for servicing on a single resource, in such a way that the variance of thei...