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IJCAI
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Towards Cooperative Negotiation for Decentralized Resource Allocation in Autonomic Computing Systems
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
SIAMCOMP
1998
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13 years 5 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs, and Nonapproximability-Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs (PCPs) and the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on p...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan
ICDCN
2009
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
Byzantine-Resilient Convergence in Oblivious Robot Networks
Given a set of robots with arbitrary initial location and no agreement on a global coordinate system, convergence requires that all robots asymptotically approach the exact same, ...
Zohir Bouzid, Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru, S&e...
INFOCOM
1991
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Queueing Performance with Impatient Customers
customer which exceeds its deadline will either leave the queue without service or stay in the queue to get unsucWe consider the problem of scheduling impatient CUS- cessful servic...
Zheng-Xue Zhao, Shivendra S. Panwar, Donald F. Tow...
STOC
2004
ACM
145views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
14 years 5 months ago
Using mixture models for collaborative filtering
A collaborative filtering system at an e-commerce site or similar service uses data about aggregate user behavior to make recommendations tailored to specific user interests. We d...
Jon M. Kleinberg, Mark Sandler