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STORAGESS
2005
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Expecting the unexpected: adaptation for predictive energy conservation
The use of access predictors to improve storage device performance has been investigated for both improving access times, as well as a means of reducing energy consumed by the dis...
Jeffrey P. Rybczynski, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed A...
116
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EUSFLAT
2009
135views Fuzzy Logic» more  EUSFLAT 2009»
14 years 11 months ago
Exchanging Iterated Expectations of Random Upper Semicontinuous Functions: an application to decision theory
In this paper we present a procedure to deal with a kind of single-stage decision problems with imprecise utilities. In this type of problems the product measurability of the utili...
Miguel López-Díaz, Luis J. Rodr&iacu...
WSC
2007
15 years 4 months ago
Expecting the unexpected: representing, reasoning about, and assessing construction project contingencies
Planning, scheduling and effective management of contingencies are crucial for the successful management of construction projects. In this paper we explore a mathematical represen...
G. Ryan Anderson, Nilufer Onder, Amlan Mukherjee
LICS
1998
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Compositional Analysis of Expected Delays in Networks of Probabilistic I/O Automata
Probabilistic I/O automata (PIOA) constitute a model for distributed or concurrent systems that incorporates a notion of probabilistic choice. The PIOA model provides a notion of ...
Eugene W. Stark, Scott A. Smolka
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AAAI
2012
13 years 4 months ago
Quality Expectation-Variance Tradeoffs in Crowdsourcing Contests
We examine designs for crowdsourcing contests, where participants compete for rewards given to superior solutions of a task. We theoretically analyze tradeoffs between the expecta...
Xi Alice Gao, Yoram Bachrach, Peter Key, Thore Gra...