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MASCOTS
2008
15 years 14 days ago
Modelling and Validation of Response Times in Zoned RAID
We present and validate an enhanced analytical queueing network model of zoned RAID. The model focuses on RAID levels 01 and 5, and yields the distribution of I/O request response...
Abigail S. Lebrecht, Nicholas J. Dingle, William J...
SODA
2008
ACM
101views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
15 years 13 days ago
Adaptive local ratio
Local ratio is a well-known paradigm for designing approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. At a very high level, a local-ratio algorithm first decomposes ...
Julián Mestre
AAAI
2004
15 years 13 days ago
CMRadar: A Personal Assistant Agent for Calendar Management
Abstract. Personal assistant agents have long promised to automate routine everyday tasks in order to reduce the cognitive load on humans. One such routine task is the management o...
Pragnesh Jay Modi, Manuela M. Veloso, Stephen F. S...
AAAI
2006
15 years 13 days ago
Sample-Efficient Evolutionary Function Approximation for Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning problems are commonly tackled with temporal difference methods, which attempt to estimate the agent's optimal value function. In most real-world proble...
Shimon Whiteson, Peter Stone
AIPS
2004
15 years 13 days ago
Guiding Planner Backjumping Using Verifier Traces
In this paper, we show how a planner can use a modelchecking verifier to guide state space search. In our work on hard real-time, closed-loop planning, we use a modelchecker'...
Robert P. Goldman, Michael J. S. Pelican, David J....