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SIROCCO
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Sharpness: A Tight Condition for Scalability
: A distributed system is scalable if the rate at which it completes its computation and communication tasks does not depend on its size. As an example, the scalability of a peer-t...
Augustin Chaintreau
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MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
On the benefits of decomposing policy engines into components
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
Konstantin Beznosov
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Transparent Information Dissemination
This paper explores integrating self-tuning updates and sequential consistency to enable transparent replication of large-scale information dissemination services. We focus our at...
Amol Nayate, Michael Dahlin, Arun Iyengar
CDC
2009
IEEE
132views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
15 years 2 months ago
Q-learning and Pontryagin's Minimum Principle
Abstract— Q-learning is a technique used to compute an optimal policy for a controlled Markov chain based on observations of the system controlled using a non-optimal policy. It ...
Prashant G. Mehta, Sean P. Meyn
ICFP
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Implicitly-threaded parallelism in Manticore
The increasing availability of commodity multicore processors is making parallel computing available to the masses. Traditional parallel languages are largely intended for large-s...
Matthew Fluet, Mike Rainey, John H. Reppy, Adam Sh...