This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
Despite the relevance of the belief-desire-intention (BDI) model of rational agency, little work has been done to deal with its two main limitations: the lack of learning competen...
Effective overlap of computation and communication is a well understood technique for latency hiding and can yield significant performance gains for applications on high-end compu...
Aniruddha G. Shet, P. Sadayappan, David E. Bernhol...
Abstract. We study the problem of contention resolution for differentsized jobs on a simple channel. When a job makes a run attempt, it learns only whether the attempt succeeded or...
Michael A. Bender, Jeremy T. Fineman, Seth Gilbert
Abstract. The global quiescence of a distributed computation (or distributed termination detection) is an important problem. Some concurrent programming languages and systems provi...
Billy Yan-Kit Man, Hiu Ning (Angela) Chan, Andrew ...