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HPDC
1998
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Matchmaking: Distributed Resource Management for High Throughput Computing
Conventional resource management systems use a system model to describe resources and a centralized scheduler to control their allocation. We argue that this paradigm does not ada...
Rajesh Raman, Miron Livny, Marvin H. Solomon
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Reinforcement learning for DEC-MDPs with changing action sets and partially ordered dependencies
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...
Thomas Gabel, Martin A. Riedmiller
INTERACT
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Usability Challenges in Security and Privacy Policy-Authoring Interfaces
Abstract. Policies, sets of rules that govern permission to access resources, have long been used in computer security and online privacy management; however, the usability of auth...
Robert W. Reeder, Clare-Marie Karat, John Karat, C...
ICAC
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Distributed Stream Management using Utility-Driven Self-Adaptive Middleware
We consider pervasive computing applications that process and aggregate data-streams emanating from highly distributed data sources to produce a stream of updates that have an imp...
Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Karsten Schwan
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Integrated Resource Management for Cluster-based Internet Services
Client request rates for Internet services tend to be bursty and thus it is important to maintain efficient resource utilization under a wide range of load conditions. Network ser...
Kai Shen, Hong Tang, Tao Yang, Lingkun Chu