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The ever increasing adoption of mobile devices with limited energy storage capacity, on the one hand, and more awareness of the environmental impact of massive data centres and server pools, on the other hand, have both led to an increased…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Rodrigo A. Carrasco , Garud Iyengar , Cliff Stein

We extend the semantics and type system of a lambda calculus equipped with common constructs to be "resource-aware". That is, the semantics keeps track of the usage of resources, and is stuck, besides in case of type errors, if either a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Riccardo Bianchini , Francesco Dagnino , Paola Giannini , Elena Zucca

Machine learning systems are increasingly used to make decisions about people's lives, such as whether to give someone a loan or whether to interview someone for a job. This has led to considerable interest in making such machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Daniel McNamara , Cheng Soon Ong , Robert C. Williamson

We introduce a resource theory of channels relevant to communication via quantum channels, in which the set of constant channels --- useless channels for communication tasks --- is considered as the free resource. We find that our theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 Ryuji Takagi , Kun Wang , Masahito Hayashi

Budget allocation for power system reliability improvement is considered among the sophisticated problems because of its nonlinear nature. This nonlinearity makes the problem intractable for large-scale power systems. This paper compares…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-08 Hamzeh Davarikia , Masoud Barati , Yupo Chan , Kamran Iqbal

A key challenge towards reliable robotic control is devising computational models that can both learn policies and guarantee robustness when deployed in the field. Inspired by the free energy principle in computational neuroscience, to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hozefa Jesawada , Giovanni Russo , Abdalla Swikir , Fares Abu-Dakka

Traffic flows in a distributed computing network require both transmission and processing, and can be interdicted by removing either communication or computation resources. We study the robustness of a distributed computing network under…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jianan Zhang , Hyang-Won Lee , Eytan Modiano

One of the primary computational requirements of a cellular system is the ability to transfer information between spatially separated components. To accomplish this, biology uses diverse physical channels including production or release of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Samuel Bryant , Benjamin Machta

Today's intelligent computing environments, including Internet of Things, cloud computing and fog computing, allow many organizations around the world to optimize their resource allocation regarding time and energy consumption. Due to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Fatemeh Rahmani , Javad Hassannataj Joloudari , Shahab Shamshirband , Seyedakbar Mostafavi

We consider the problem of testing and learning from data in the presence of resource constraints, such as limited memory or weak data access, which place limitations on the efficiency and feasibility of testing or learning. In particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Matthias C. Caro , Jens Eisert , Marcel Hinsche , Marios Ioannou , Alexander Nietner , Ryan Sweke

Scaling large language models (LLMs) has driven significant advancements, yet it faces diminishing returns and escalating energy demands. This work explores how test-time compute (TTC) can serve as an energy-efficient complement to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yunho Jin , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks

With the increasing complexity of modern software and the demand for high performance, energy consumption has become a critical factor for developers and researchers. While much of the research community is focused on evaluating the energy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Shivadharshan S , Akilesh P , Rajrupa Chattaraj , Sridhar Chimalakonda

We consider the problem of scheduling a set of $n$ tasks on $m$ processors under precedence, communication, and global system energy constraints to minimize makespan. We extend existing scheduling models to account for energy usage and give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-27 David Felber , Adam Meyerson

Can a problem undecidable with classical resources be decidable with quantum ones? The answer expected is no; as both being Turing theories, they should not solve the Halting problem - a problem unsolvable by any Turing machine. Yet, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Airin Antony

In business process simulation, resource availability is typically modeled by assigning a calendar to each resource, e.g., Monday-Friday, 9:00-18:00. Resources are assumed to be always available during each time slot in their availability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Orlenys López-Pintado , Marlon Dumas

Considering an energy harvesting sensor network, the overall probability of event loss is derived. Based on this result, a variety of harvesting resource allocation schemes (sizing the energy storages and the harvesting devices, under a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Shenqiu Zhang , Alireza Seyedi

With the rise of AI in recent years and the increase in complexity of the models, the growing demand in computational resources is starting to pose a significant challenge. The need for higher compute power is being met with increasingly…

The environmental impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) continues to grow, driven notably by increasing usage, rebound effects, and emerging demands. However, despite the virtual nature of its services, the sector…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Pierre Jacquet , Adrien Luxey-Bitri

In this paper, we aim at minimizing the energy consumption when executing a divisible workload under a bound on the total execution time, while resilience is provided through checkpointing. We discuss several variants of this multi-criteria…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Guillaume Aupy , Anne Benoit , Rami Melhem , Paul Renaud-Goud , Yves Robert

Transfer of recent advances in deep reinforcement learning to real-world applications is hindered by high data demands and thus low efficiency and scalability. Through independent improvements of components such as replay buffers or more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 André Eberhard , Houssam Metni , Georg Fahland , Alexander Stroh , Pascal Friederich