XGR (XML Data Grid) and BabelPeers are both data management systems based on distributed hash tables (DHT) that use the Pastry DHT to store data and meta data. XGR is based on the...
Fault-tolerant, replicated file systems are a crucial component of today's data centers. Despite their huge complexity, these systems are typically specified only in brief pr...
We describe an approach for exploiting structure in Markov Decision Processes with continuous state variables. At each step of the dynamic programming, the state space is dynamica...
Zhengzhu Feng, Richard Dearden, Nicolas Meuleau, R...
Abstract—This paper illustrates how the functionalities of monitoring/control systems, within an agent–based framework, can be improved by the adoption of Knowledge–Based tec...
Abstract. In this paper we present two improvements to the partitioning process: 1) A new dynamic bu er management strategy is employed to increase the average block size of I/O-tr...