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TPDS
2010
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Maximizing Service Reliability in Distributed Computing Systems with Random Node Failures: Theory and Implementation
—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
Jorge E. Pezoa, Sagar Dhakal, Majeed M. Hayat
MP
2006
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Convexity and decomposition of mean-risk stochastic programs
Abstract. Traditional stochastic programming is risk neutral in the sense that it is concerned with the optimization of an expectation criterion. A common approach to addressing ri...
Shabbir Ahmed
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ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Efficient Polygonal Approximation of Digital Curves via Monte Carlo Optimization
A novel stochastic searching scheme based on the Monte Carlo optimization is presented for polygonal approximation (PA) problem. We propose to combine the split-and-merge based lo...
Xiuzhuang Zhou, Yao Lu
ICALP
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Recursive Markov Decision Processes and Recursive Stochastic Games
We introduce Recursive Markov Decision Processes (RMDPs) and Recursive Simple Stochastic Games (RSSGs), which are classes of (finitely presented) countable-state MDPs and zero-su...
Kousha Etessami, Mihalis Yannakakis
ICALP
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Survey of Stochastic Games with Limsup and Liminf Objectives
A stochastic game is a two-player game played on a graph, where in each state the successor is chosen either by one of the players, or according to a probability distribution. We s...
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Laurent Doyen, Thomas A. He...