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JCIT
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Scheduling of scientific workflows using Discrete PSO Algorithm for Grids
Grid computing systems utilize distributive owned and geographically dispersed resources for providing a wide variety of services for various applications. It is possible that the...
Shajulin Benedict V. Vasudevan
ICPP
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Optimal Video Replication and Placement on a Cluster of Video-on-Demand Servers
A cost-effective approach to building up scalable Videoon-Demand (VoD) servers is to couple a number of VoD servers together in a cluster. In this article, we study a crucial vide...
Xiaobo Zhou, Cheng-Zhong Xu
IPPS
2005
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Distributed Scheduling of Parallel I/O in the Presence of Data Replication
This paper studies distributed scheduling of parallel I/O data transfers on systems that provide data replication. In our previous work, we proposed a centralized algorithm for so...
Jan-Jan Wu, Pangfeng Liu
NIPS
2008
15 years 7 months ago
Signal-to-Noise Ratio Analysis of Policy Gradient Algorithms
Policy gradient (PG) reinforcement learning algorithms have strong (local) convergence guarantees, but their learning performance is typically limited by a large variance in the e...
John W. Roberts, Russ Tedrake
PC
2011
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15 years 1 months ago
Restart strategies in optimization: parallel and serial cases
This paper addresses the problem of minimizing the average running time of the Las Vegas type algorithm, both in serial and parallel setups. The necessary conditions for the exist...
Oleg V. Shylo, Timothy Middelkoop, Panos M. Pardal...