Holiday reading acknowledgements

Holiday musings.

A M d his Editor’s Page is being written during the Christmas reak, a traditional period of family reunions, relaxation, ecreation, and reflection. It is often a time when people tep back and try to put the daily activities in which their ives are immersed into a broader perspective. In that spirit, thought I would share with you some of my musings uring this time. The first issue that occurred...

Preface Acknowledgements

One of the most pressing concerns in modern datacenter management is the rising cost of operation. Therefore, reducing variable expense, such as energy cost, has become a number one priority. However, reducing energy cost in large distributed enterprise system is an open research topic. These systems are commonly subjected to highly volatile workload processes and characterized by complex perfo...

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We study the predictability of geometric concepts, in particular those de ned by boolean combinations of simple geometric objects. First, we give a negative result, showing that the problem of predicting the class of convex polytopes encoded by listing their vertices is prediction complete for P . Thus, an e cient solution to this prediction problem implies the existence of e cient solutions to...

Acknowledgements – Remerciements

Acknowledgements are too important to be expressed in a language that is not well mastered. For this reason, I choose to mostly write them in French. On perçoit souvent le chercheur comme une entité isolée, déconnectée du réel et du monde des vivants. Ce n'est pas mon cas. Si j'ai choisi de travailler sur les langages de programmation, c'est qu'` a mon sens le verbe est essentieì a la construct...