We consider storage in an extremely large-scale distributed computer system designed for stream processing applications. In such systems, incoming data and intermediate results ma...
Kirsten Hildrum, Fred Douglis, Joel L. Wolf, Phili...
On photo sharing websites like Flickr and Zooomr, users are offered the possibility to assign tags to their uploaded pictures. Using these tags to find interesting groups of sem...
In the classic minimum makespan scheduling problem, we are given an input sequence of jobs with processing times. A scheduling algorithm has to assign the jobs to m parallel machi...
— Multi-agent coordination problems can be cast as distributed optimization tasks. Probability Collectives (PCs) are techniques that deal with such problems in discrete and conti...
In this paper we consider the problem of exploring an unknown environment by a team of robots. As in single-robot exploration the goal is to minimize the overall exploration time....
Wolfram Burgard, Mark Moors, Dieter Fox, Reid G. S...