Abstract. Voltage-gated ion channels in neuronal membranes fluctuate randomly between different conformational states due to thermal agitation. Fluctuations between conducting and ...
Peter N. Steinmetz, Amit Manwani, Christof Koch, M...
Hot spots are a major obstacle to achieving scalability in the Internet. At the application layer, hot spots are usually caused by either (a) high demand for some data or (b) high...
Samrat Bhattacharjee, William C. Cheng, Cheng-Fu C...
Planning algorithms have traditionally been geared toward achievement goals in single-agent environments. Such algorithms essentially produce plans to reach one of a specified se...
We consider the problem of solving a nonhomogeneous infinite horizon Markov Decision Process (MDP) problem in the general case of potentially multiple optimal first period polic...
Torpong Cheevaprawatdomrong, Irwin E. Schochetman,...
We present SGuard, a new fault-tolerance technique for distributed stream processing engines (SPEs) running in clusters of commodity servers. SGuard is less disruptive to normal s...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Albert G. Gre...