Abstract. We describe and evaluate the Running Time Advisor (RTA), a system that can predict the running time of a compute-bound task on a typical shared, unreserved commodity host...
Abstract. Trust-management systems address the authorization problem in distributed systems. They offer several advantages over other approaches, such as support for delegation and...
Hao Wang, Somesh Jha, Thomas W. Reps, Stefan Schwo...
Recent research in decision theoretic planning has focussedon making the solution of Markov decision processes (MDPs) more feasible. We develop a family of algorithms for structur...
Craig Boutilier, Ronen I. Brafman, Christopher W. ...
Understanding a software system by just analyzing the structure of the system reveals only half of the picture, since the structure tells us only how the code is working but not w...
In this paper, a new technique is proposed for the automatic generation of a preview sequence of a feature film. The input video is decomposed into a number of basic components ca...
Liang-Hua Chen, Chih-Wen Su, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao, ...