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HPCC
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Complex Network-Based Approach for Job Scheduling in Grid Environments
Many optimization techniques have been adopted for efficient job scheduling in grid computing, such as: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and stochastic methods. Such techni...
Renato Porfirio Ishii, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello,...
ROBOCUP
2007
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Model-Based Reinforcement Learning in a Complex Domain
Reinforcement learning is a paradigm under which an agent seeks to improve its policy by making learning updates based on the experiences it gathers through interaction with the en...
Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Peter Stone, Yaxin Liu
CGI
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Quasi-physical Simulation of Large-Scale Dynamic Forest Scenes
This paper presents a quasi-physically based approach for interactively simulating large-scale dynamic forest scenes under different wind conditions. We introduce theories from th...
Long Zhang, Chengfang Song, Qifeng Tan, Wei Chen, ...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Multi-Stage Investment Decision under Contingent Demand for Networking Planning
Telecommunication companies, such as Internet and cellular service providers, are seeing rapid and uncertain growth of traffic routed through their networks. It has become a chall...
Miguel F. Anjos, Michael Desroches, Anwar Haque, O...
IAT
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Using Prior Knowledge to Improve Distributed Hill Climbing
The Distributed Probabilistic Protocol (DPP) is a new, approximate algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSPs) that exploits prior knowledge to impr...
Roger Mailler