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AROBOTS
2002
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14 years 9 months ago
Statistical Learning for Humanoid Robots
The complexity of the kinematic and dynamic structure of humanoid robots make conventional analytical approaches to control increasingly unsuitable for such systems. Learning techn...
Sethu Vijayakumar, Aaron D'Souza, Tomohiro Shibata...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Scheduling despite inexact job-size information
Motivated by the optimality of Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) for mean response time, in recent years many computer systems have used the heuristic of "favoring sm...
Adam Wierman, Misja Nuyens
SIGCOMM
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Meridian: a lightweight network location service without virtual coordinates
This paper introduces a lightweight, scalable and accurate framework, called Meridian, for performing node selection based on network location. The framework consists of an overla...
Bernard Wong, Aleksandrs Slivkins, Emin Gün S...
SPAA
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Cycle stealing under immediate dispatch task assignment
We consider the practical problem of task assignment in a server farm, where each arriving job is immediately dispatched to a server in the farm. We look at the benefit of cycle ...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Cuihong Li, Takayuki Osogami, ...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Query suspend and resume
Suppose a long-running analytical query is executing on a database server and has been allocated a large amount of physical memory. A high-priority task comes in and we need to ru...
Badrish Chandramouli, Christopher N. Bond, Shivnat...