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SIGMETRICS
1997
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Group-Guaranteed Channel Capacity in Multimedia Storage Servers
One of the open questions in the design of multimedia storage servers is in what order to serve incoming requests. Given the capability provided by the disk layout and scheduling ...
Athanassios Tsiolis, Mary K. Vernon
JSSPP
1997
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Experimental Evaluation of Processor Pool-Based Scheduling for Shared-Memory NUMA Multiprocessors
In this paper we describe the design, implementation and experimental evaluation of a technique for operating system schedulers called processor pool-based scheduling [51]. Our tec...
Tim Brecht
UAI
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Marginalizing Out Future Passengers in Group Elevator Control
Group elevator scheduling is an NP-hard sequential decision-making problem with unbounded state spaces and substantial uncertainty. Decision-theoretic reasoning plays a surprising...
Daniel Nikovski, Matthew Brand
JOT
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Using Multiple Servers in Concurrent Garbage Collector
Object-oriented programming languages are being widely adopted as one of the most powerful languages due their flexibility and reusability. However, these languages suffer from me...
Ali Ebrahim El Desokey, Amany Sarhan, Seham Moawed
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Transfer via inter-task mappings in policy search reinforcement learning
The ambitious goal of transfer learning is to accelerate learning on a target task after training on a different, but related, source task. While many past transfer methods have f...
Matthew E. Taylor, Shimon Whiteson, Peter Stone