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OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Improving reinforcement learning function approximators via neuroevolution
Reinforcement learning problems are commonly tackled with temporal difference methods, which use dynamic programming and statistical sampling to estimate the long-term value of ta...
Shimon Whiteson
RTSS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
An Incremental Approach to Scheduling during Overloads in Real-Time Systems
In this paper we propose a novel scheduling framework for a real-timeenvironmentthat experiences dynamic changes. Thisframework is capable of adjusting the system workload in incr...
Pedro Mejía-Alvarez, Rami G. Melhem, Daniel...
IPSN
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Simultaneous placement and scheduling of sensors
We consider the problem of monitoring spatial phenomena, such as road speeds on a highway, using wireless sensors with limited battery life. A central question is to decide where ...
Andreas Krause, Ram Rajagopal, Anupam Gupta, Carlo...
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
On the road to recovery: restoring data after disasters
—Restoring data operations after a disaster is a daunting task: how should recovery be performed to minimize data loss and application downtime? Administrators are under consider...
Kimberly Keeton, Dirk Beyer 0002, Ernesto Brau, Ar...