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1. End-user perceptions of quality and information technology in health care

Author

James A. Rodger, David Paper, and Parag C. Pendharkar

Subjects
Marketing, Hospital information system, Multivariate statistics, Information Systems and Management, Knowledge management, business.industry, Computer science, End user, Strategy and Management, media_common.quotation_subject, Information technology, Regression analysis, Computer Science Applications, Scheduling (computing), Management of Technology and Innovation, Perception, Health care, business, media_common
Abstract

The results of a field study investigating the impact of the extent of use, staff scheduling, and the adoption of quality control mechanisms (QCM) on end-user perceptions of information technology (IT) in a health care environment are presented. A multivariate model was developed and tested using multiple regression analysis on 47 hospital information system (HIS) end-users. Three specific hypotheses are proposed and tested. Data analyses indicate that end user perceptions depend on two factors: the end-user usage of IT, and the adoption of formal quality control mechanisms. Based on the research results, several suggestions are made to improve the likelihood of successful IT implementation in the health care industry.

Published
1996
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2. Adaptive Request Scheduling for the I/O Forwarding Layer using Reinforcement Learning

Author

Philippe O. A. Navaux, Jean Luca Bez, Toni Cortes, Francieli Zanon Boito, Alberto Miranda, Ramon Nou, Instituto de Informática da UFRGS (UFRGS), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul [Porto Alegre] (UFRGS), Topology-Aware System-Scale Data Management for High-Performance Computing (TADAAM), Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), Data Aware Large Scale Computing (DATAMOVE ), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion (BSC - CNS), This study was financed in part by the Coordenac¸ao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nıvel Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001. It has also received support from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientıfico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Brazil, the LICIA International Laboratory, NCSA-Inria-ANL-BSC-JSC-Riken Joint-Laboratory on Extreme Scale Computing (JLESC), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the TIN2015–65316 grant, and the Generalitat de Catalunya under contract 2014– SGR–1051. This research received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 800144. Experiments presented in this paper were carried out using the Grid’5000 testbed, supported by a scientific interest group hosted by Inria and including CNRS, RENATER and several Universities as well as other organizations (see https://www. grid5000.fr). The authors acknowledge the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC/MCTI, Brazil) for providing HPC resources of the SDumont supercomputer, which have contributed to the research results reported within this paper., Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CAP - Grup de Computació d'Altes Prestacions, and Université de Bordeaux (UB)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest

Subjects
I/O forwarding, Parallel I/O, I/O scheduling, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer science, Distributed computing, Auto-tuning, 02 engineering and technology, Scheduling (computing), I/O Scheduling, I/O Forwarding, Machine learning, Reinforcement learning, Aprenentatge automàtic, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Input/output, High performance I/O, 020206 networking & telecommunications, Workload, Reinforcement Learning, Hardware and Architecture, Superordinadors, 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing, High performance computing, [INFO.INFO-DC]Computer Science [cs]/Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [cs.DC], Software
Abstract

In this paper, we propose an approach to adapt the I/O forwarding layer of HPC systems to applications’ access patterns. I/O optimization techniques can improve performance for the access patterns they were designed to target, but they often decrease performance for others. Furthermore, these techniques usually depend on the precise tune of their parameters, which commonly falls back to the users. Instead, we propose to do it dynamically at runtime based on the I/O workload observed by the system. Our approach uses a reinforcement learning technique – contextual bandits – to make the system capable of learning the best parameter value to each observed access pattern during its execution. That eliminates the need of a complicated and time-consuming previous training phase. Our case study is the TWINS scheduling algorithm, where performance improvements depend on the time window parameter, which in turn depends on the workload. We evaluate our proposal and demonstrate it can reach a precision of 88% on the parameter selection in the first hundreds of observations of an access pattern, achieving 99% of the optimal performance. We demonstrate that the system – which is expected to live for years – will be able to adapt to changes and optimize its performance after having observed an access pattern for a few (not necessarily contiguous) minutes. This study was financed in part by the Coordenaçao de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001. It has also received support from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Brazil; the LICIA International Laboratory; NCSA-Inria-ANL-BSC-JSC-Riken Joint-Laboratory on Extreme Scale Computing (JLESC); the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the TIN2015–65316 grant; and the Generalitat de Catalunya under contract 2014– SGR–1051. This research received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 800144.

Published
2020
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3. READYS: A Reinforcement Learning Based Strategy for Heterogeneous Dynamic Scheduling

Author

Nathan Grinsztajn, Olivier Beaumont, Emmanuel Jeannot, Philippe Preux, Jeannot, Emmanuel, Scool (Scool), Inria Lille - Nord Europe, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 (CRIStAL), Centrale Lille-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centrale Lille-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), High-End Parallel Algorithms for Challenging Numerical Simulations (HiePACS), Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), Topology-Aware System-Scale Data Management for High-Performance Computing (TADAAM), Experiments presented in this paper were partially carried out using the Grid’5000 testbed, supported by a scientific interest group hosted by Inria and including CNRS, RENATER and several Universities as well as other organizations. Nathan Grinsztajn is recipient of a PhD funding from AMX program, Ecole polytechnique., and Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest

Subjects
Schedule, Theoretical computer science, Job shop scheduling, Computer science, [INFO.INFO-DC] Computer Science [cs]/Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [cs.DC], Reinforcement learning, Dynamic priority scheduling, [INFO.INFO-DC]Computer Science [cs]/Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [cs.DC], Directed acyclic graph, Scheduling (computing), Cholesky decomposition, Task (project management)
Abstract

International audience; In this paper, we propose READYS, a reinforcement learning algorithm for the dynamic scheduling of computations modeled as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAGs). Our goal is to develop a scheduling algorithm in which allocation and scheduling decisions are made at runtime, based on the state of the system, as performed in runtime systems such as StarPU or ParSEC. Reinforcement Learning is a natural candidate to achieve this task, since its general principle is to build step by step a strategy that, given the state of the system (the state of the resources and a view of the ready tasks and their successors in our case), makes a decision to optimize a global criterion. Moreover, the use of Reinforcement Learning is natural in a context where the duration of tasks (and communications) is stochastic. We propose READYS that combines Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) with an Actor-Critic Algorithm (A2C): it builds an adaptive representation of the scheduling problem on the fly and learns a scheduling strategy, aiming at minimizing the makespan. A crucial point is that READYS builds a general scheduling strategy which is neither limited to only one specific application or task graph nor one particular problem size, and that can be used to schedule any DAG. We focus on different types of task graphs originating from linear algebra factorization kernels (CHOLESKY, LU, QR) and we consider heterogeneous platforms made of a few CPUs and GPUs. We first propose to analyze the performance of READYS when learning is performed on a given (platform, kernel, problem size) combination. Using simulations, we show that the scheduling agent obtains performances very similar or even superior to algorithms from the literature, and that it is especially powerful when the scheduling environment contains a lot of uncertainty. We additionally demonstrate that our agent exhibits very promising generalization capabilities. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper which shows that reinforcement learning can really be used for dynamic DAG scheduling on heterogeneous resources.

Published
2021

4. Data-Driven Approach to Grade Change Scheduling Optimization in a Paper Machine

Author

Tewodros Deneke, Teemu J. Ikonen, Hossein Mostafaei, Jason Kramb, Iiro Harjunkoski, Keijo Heljanko, Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Process Control and Automation, UPM Communication Papers, University of Helsinki, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Department of Computer Science, and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology

Subjects
Decision support system, business.product_category, Computer science, CONTINUOUS-TIME, General Chemical Engineering, MODELS, Scheduling (production processes), 215 Chemical engineering, 02 engineering and technology, General Chemistry, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, FRAMEWORK, Industrial engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Scheduling (computing), Data-driven, Paper machine, 020401 chemical engineering, SCOPE, 0204 chemical engineering, 0210 nano-technology, business, Computer Science::Operating Systems
Abstract

This paper proposes an efficient decision support tool for the optimal production scheduling of a variety of paper grades in a paper machine. The tool is based on a continuous-time scheduling model and generalized disjunctive programming. As the full-space scheduling model corresponds to a large-scale mixed integer linear programming model, we apply data analytics techniques to reduce the size of the decision space, which has a profound impact on the computational efficiency of the model and enables us to support the solution of large-scale problems. The data-driven model is based on an automated method of identifying the forbidden and recommended paper grade sequences, as well as the changeover durations between two paper grades. The results from a real industrial case study show that the data-driven model leads to good results in terms of both solution quality and CPU time in comparison to the full-space model.

Published
2020