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INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Adaptive Leases: A Strong Consistency Mechanism for the World Wide Web
—In this paper, we argue that weak cache consistency mechanisms supported by existing Web proxy caches must be augmented by strong consistency mechanisms to support the growing d...
Venkata Duvvuri, Prashant J. Shenoy, Renu Tewari
AAAI
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Sample-Efficient Evolutionary Function Approximation for Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning problems are commonly tackled with temporal difference methods, which attempt to estimate the agent's optimal value function. In most real-world proble...
Shimon Whiteson, Peter Stone
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 13 days ago
Queueing Analysis of Loss Systems with Variable Optical Delay Lines
—Recently, a new optical device called variable optical delay line (VODL) has been proposed in the literature. As suggested by its name, the delay of a VODL can be dynamically se...
Duan-Shin Lee, Cheng-Shang Chang, Jay Cheng, Horng...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Competitive prefetching for concurrent sequential I/O
During concurrent I/O workloads, sequential access to one I/O stream can be interrupted by accesses to other streams in the system. Frequent switching between multiple sequential ...
Chuanpeng Li, Kai Shen, Athanasios E. Papathanasio...
CN
2006
124views more  CN 2006»
13 years 6 months ago
Session based access control in geographically replicated Internet services
Performance critical services over Internet often rely on geographically distributed architectures of replicated servers. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are a typical example whe...
Novella Bartolini