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ISR
2010
14 years 8 months ago
Resource Allocation Policies for Personalization in Content Delivery Sites
One of the distinctive features of sites on the Internet is their ability to gather enormous amounts of information regarding their visitors, and use this information to enhance a...
Dengpan Liu, Sumit Sarkar, Chelliah Sriskandarajah
IPPS
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Dynamic resource allocation of computer clusters with probabilistic workloads
Real-time resource scheduling is an important factor for improving the performance of cluster computing. In many distributed and parallel processing systems, particularly real-tim...
Marwan S. Sleiman, Lester Lipsky, Robert Sheahan
VLDB
1998
ACM
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15 years 1 months ago
Resource Scheduling for Composite Multimedia Objects
Scheduling algorithms for composite multimedia presentations need to ensure that the user-defined synchronization constraints for the various presentation components are met. This...
Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Banu &O...
AAAI
2006
14 years 11 months 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
HPDC
2010
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Reshaping text data for efficient processing on Amazon EC2
Text analysis tools are nowadays required to process increasingly large corpora which are often organized as small files (abstracts, news articles, etc). Cloud computing offers a ...
Gabriela Turcu, Ian T. Foster, Svetlozar Nestorov