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ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Robust coordination to sustain throughput of an unstable agent network
We present a multi-agent coordination technique to maintain throughput of a large-scale agent network system in the face of failures of agents. Failures do not just deteriorate th...
Rajesh Gautam, Kazuo Miyashita
IJCAI
1997
14 years 11 months ago
An Achievement Test for Knowledge-Based Systems: QUEM
This paper describes QUEM, a method for assessing the skill level of a knowledge-based system based on the quality of the solutions it produces. QUEM is demonstrated by using it t...
Caroline C. Hayes, Michael I. Parzen
CCGRID
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
A Probabilistic Model to Analyse Workflow Performance on Production Grids
Production grids are complex and highly variable systems whose behavior is not well understood and difficult to anticipate. The goal of this study is to estimate the impact of the ...
Tristan Glatard, Johan Montagnat, Xavier Pennec
GRID
2006
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Operating System Support for Space Allocation in Grid Storage Systems
Abstract-- Shared temporary storage space is often the constraining resource for clusters that serve as execution nodes in wide-area distributed systems. At least one large nationa...
Douglas Thain
EDBT
2012
ACM
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13 years 21 hour ago
An optimization framework for map-reduce queries
We present an effective optimization framework for general SQLlike map-reduce queries, which is based on a novel query algebra and uses a small number of higher-order physical ope...
Leonidas Fegaras, Chengkai Li, Upa Gupta