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Trustworthy artificial intelligence increasingly relies on probabilistic computation to achieve robustness, interpretability, security and privacy. In practical systems, such workloads interleave deterministic data access with repeated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xueji Zhao , Likai Pei , Jianbo Liu , Kai Ni , Ningyuan Cao

Page switching is a technique that increases the memory in microcontrollers without extending the address buses. This technique is widely used in the design of 8-bit MCUs. In this paper, we present an algorithm to reduce the overhead of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-08-06 Qing'an Li , Yanxiang He , Yong Chen , Wei Wu , Wenwen Xu

Consider a system of identical server pools where tasks with exponentially distributed service times arrive as a time-inhomogenenous Poisson process. An admission threshold is used in an inner control loop to assign incoming tasks to server…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Diego Goldsztajn , Sem C. Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

We investigate in this paper the performance of a simple file sharing principle. For this purpose, we consider a system composed of N peers becoming active at exponential random times; the system is initiated with only one server offering…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Florian Simatos , Philippe Robert , Fabrice Guillemin

Our goal is to efficiently solve the dynamic memory allocation problem in a concurrent setting where processes run asynchronously. On $p$ processes, we can support allocation and free for fixed-sized blocks with $O(1)$ worst-case time per…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Guy E. Blelloch , Yuanhao Wei

The paper considers a queueing system with limited processor sharing. No more than n jobs may be served simultaneously. This system may be used for modeling bandwidth sharing in wireless communication systems and processes of service in…

Applications · Statistics 2022-02-24 M. S. Alencar , A. G. Tatashev , O. V. Seleznjev , M. V. Yashina

Recent work has shown that the distribution of inter-event times for e-mail communication exhibits a heavy tail which is statistically consistent with a cascading Poisson process. In this work we extend the analysis to higher-order…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-10-14 C. Anteneodo , R. Dean Malmgren , D. R. Chialvo

Parallel recordings of neural spike counts have revealed the existence of context-dependent noise correlations in neural populations. Theories of population coding have also shown that such correlations can impact the information encoded by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Sacha Sokoloski , Ruben Coen-Cagli

We study a multi-objective model on the allocation of reusable resources under model uncertainty. Heterogeneous customers arrive sequentially according to a latent stochastic process, request for certain amounts of resources, and occupy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Xilin Zhang , Wang Chi Cheung

With the advent of social networks and the web, the graph sizes have grown too large to fit in main memory precipitating the need for alternative approaches for an efficient, scalable evaluation of queries on graphs of any size. Here, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Soumyava Das , Abhishek Santra , Jay Bodra , Sharma Chakravarthy

We study an optimal server partition and customer assignment problem for an uncapacitated FCFS queueing system with heterogeneous types of customers. Each type of customers is associated with a Poisson arrival, a certain service time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Shengyu Cao , Simai He , Zizhuo Wang , Yifan Feng

This paper introduces a new asymptotic regime for simplifying stochastic models having non-stationary effects, such as those that arise in the presence of time-of-day effects. This regime describes an operating environment within which the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Zeyu Zheng , Harsha Honnappa , Peter W. Glynn

Tiered memory systems consisting of fast small memory and slow large memory have emerged to provide high capacity memory in a cost-effective way. The effectiveness of tiered memory systems relies on how many memory accesses can be absorbed…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Hyungjun Cho , Igjae Kim , Kwanghoon Choi , Hongjin Kim , Wonjae Lee , Junhyeok Im , Jinin So , Jaehyuk Huh

The Poisson process of order $i$ is a weighted sum of independent Poisson processes and is used to model the flow of clients in different services. In the paper below we study some extensions of this process, for different forms of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-01 A. Maheshwari , E. Orsingher , A. S. Sengar

A validated simulation model primarily requires performing an appropriate input analysis mainly by determining the behavior of real-world processes using probability distributions. In many practical cases, probability distributions of the…

Applications · Statistics 2014-03-05 Issac Shams , Saeede Ajorlou , Kai Yang

In database query processing, actual run-time conditions (e.g., actual selectivities and actual available memory) very often differ from compile-time expectations of run-time conditions (e.g., estimated predicate selectivities and…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Goetz Graefe , Harumi Kuno , Janet Wiener

We study a multi-server queueing system with a periodic arrival rate and customers whose joining decision is based on their patience and a delay proxy. Specifically, each customer has a patience level sampled from a common distribution.…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Shreehari Anand Bodas , Michel Mandjes , Liron Ravner

An increasing body of evidence suggests that the trial-to-trial variability of spiking activity in the brain is not mere noise, but rather the reflection of a sampling-based encoding scheme for probabilistic computing. Since the precise…

Modern Internet services, such as those at Google, Yahoo!, and Amazon, handle billions of requests per day on clusters of thousands of computers. Because these services operate under strict performance requirements, a statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-04-18 Charles Sutton , Michael I. Jordan

Edge-caching is recognized as an efficient technique for future wireless cellular networks to improve network capacity and user-perceived quality of experience. Due to the random content requests and the limited cache memory, designing an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-27 Sajad Mehrizi , Anestis Tsakmalis , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten