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PPOPP
1997
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
LoPC: Modeling Contention in Parallel Algorithms
Parallel algorithm designers need computational models that take first order system costs into account, but are also simple enough to use in practice. This paper introduces the L...
Matthew Frank, Anant Agarwal, Mary K. Vernon
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SIGMOD
1998
ACM
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15 years 8 months ago
Optimal Multi-Step k-Nearest Neighbor Search
For an increasing number of modern database applications, efficient support of similarity search becomes an important task. Along with the complexity of the objects such as images...
Thomas Seidl, Hans-Peter Kriegel
NAS
2007
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Performance Evaluation of A Load Self-Balancing Method for Heterogeneous Metadata Server Cluster Using Trace-Driven and Syntheti
In cluster-based storage systems, the metadata server cluster must be able to adaptively distribute responsibility for metadata to maintain high system performance and long-term l...
Bin Cai, Changsheng Xie, Guangxi Zhu
CCE
2006
15 years 4 months ago
An efficient algorithm for large scale stochastic nonlinear programming problems
The class of stochastic nonlinear programming (SNLP) problems is important in optimization due to the presence of nonlinearity and uncertainty in many applications, including thos...
Y. Shastri, Urmila M. Diwekar
145
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ICML
2010
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Inverse Optimal Control with Linearly-Solvable MDPs
We present new algorithms for inverse optimal control (or inverse reinforcement learning, IRL) within the framework of linearlysolvable MDPs (LMDPs). Unlike most prior IRL algorit...
Dvijotham Krishnamurthy, Emanuel Todorov