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CPE
1998
Springer
115views Hardware» more  CPE 1998»
14 years 3 months ago
On Choosing a Task Assignment Policy for a Distributed Server System
We consider a distributed server system model and ask which policy should be used for assigning tasks to hosts. In our model each host processes tasks in First-Come-First-Serve ord...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Mark Crovella, Cristina D. Mur...
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 9 days ago
Decision making with dynamically arriving information
Decision making is the ability to decide on the best alternative among a set of candidates based on their value. In many real-world domains the value depends on events that occur ...
Meir Kalech, Avi Pfeffer
CORR
2008
Springer
96views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Improved Approximations for Multiprocessor Scheduling Under Uncertainty
This paper presents improved approximation algorithms for the problem of multiprocessor scheduling under uncertainty (SUU), in which the execution of each job may fail probabilist...
Christopher Y. Crutchfield, Zoran Dzunic, Jeremy T...
GEOINFORMATICA
1998
107views more  GEOINFORMATICA 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
A Comparison of Two Approaches to Ranking Algorithms Used to Compute Hill Slopes
The calculation of slope (downhill gradient) for a point in a digital elevation model (DEM) is a common procedure in the hydrological, environmental and remote sensing sciences. T...
Kevin H. Jones
TIT
1998
96views more  TIT 1998»
13 years 10 months ago
Sequential Prediction of Individual Sequences Under General Loss Functions
Abstract— We consider adaptive sequential prediction of arbitrary binary sequences when the performance is evaluated using a general loss function. The goal is to predict on each...
David Haussler, Jyrki Kivinen, Manfred K. Warmuth