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CCGRID
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On the Optimization of Resource Utilization in Distributed Multimedia Applications
—The application and research area of Multimedia Content Analysis (MMCA) considers all aspects of the automated extraction of new knowledge from large multimedia data streams and...
R. Yang, Robert D. van der Mei, D. Roubos, Frank J...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An Adaptive Cache Coherence Protocol Optimized for Producer-Consumer Sharing
Shared memory multiprocessors play an increasingly important role in enterprise and scientific computing facilities. Remote misses limit the performance of shared memory applicat...
Liqun Cheng, John B. Carter, Donglai Dai
ML
2002
ACM
133views Machine Learning» more  ML 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Finite-time Analysis of the Multiarmed Bandit Problem
Reinforcement learning policies face the exploration versus exploitation dilemma, i.e. the search for a balance between exploring the environment to find profitable actions while t...
Peter Auer, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Paul Fisch...
INFOCOM
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Exploiting anarchy in networks: a game-theoretic approach to combining fairness and throughput
— We propose a novel mechanism for routing and bandwidth allocation that exploits the selfish and rational behavior of flows in a network. Our mechanism leads to allocations th...
Sreenivas Gollapudi, D. Sivakumar, Aidong Zhang
WINE
2009
Springer
182views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Competitive Repeated Allocation without Payments
We study the problem of allocating a single item repeatedly among multiple competing agents, in an environment where monetary transfers are not possible. We design (Bayes-Nash) inc...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer, Daniel M. Reeves