In designing Markov Decision Processes (MDP), one must define the world, its dynamics, a set of actions, and a reward function. MDPs are often applied in situations where there i...
David L. Roberts, Sooraj Bhat, Kenneth St. Clair, ...
The typical workload in a database system consists of a mixture of multiple queries of different types, running concurrently and interacting with each other. Hence, optimizing per...
An expert finding system allows a user to type a simple text query and retrieve names and contact information of individuals that possess the expertise expressed in the query. Thi...
This paper presents a unified framework for the evaluation of a range of structured document retrieval (SDR) approaches and tasks. The framework is based on a model of tree retrie...
Mir Sadek Ali, Mariano P. Consens, Gabriella Kazai...
We study the problem of scheduling repetitive real-time tasks with the Earliest Deadline First (EDF) policy that can guarantee the given maximal temperature constraint. We show th...