General purpose processors were once designed with the major goal of maximizing performance. As power consumption has grown, with the advent of multi-core processors and the rising importance of embedded and mobile devices, the importance of designing efficient and low cost architectures has...

Defense against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is one of the primaryconcerns on the Internet today. DDoS attacks are difficult to prevent because of the open,interconnected nature of the Internet and its underlying protocols, which can be used in severalways to deny service....

Markov decision processes have become an indispensable tool in applications as diverse as equipment maintenance, manufacturing systems, inventory control, queuing networks and investment analysis. Typically we have a controlled Markov chain on a suitable state space in which transitional...