On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:03:43PM +0000, Roger Hayter wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Stone Davis 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >Roger Hayter wrote:
> >
> >>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,  Martin Stone Davis 
> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >>
> ><SNIP>
> >>>Roger Hayter wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Specialization:
> >>>---------------
> >>>I guess the idea is that if there are 10 areas of specialization, 
> >>>and  we know 5 that specialize in the first area, but all 5 regularly 
> >>>QR,  then we begin diluting the specialization of the other nodes 
> >>>which  aren't specialized in the first area.  Did I state the problem 
> >>>
> >>  Not entirely, suppose we start with 10 nodes which are only 0.1% 
> >>specialised due to random variations in what they have cached, and are 
> >>never likely to get more specialised.
> >
> >Why aren't they likely to get more specialized?  Can you draw out your 
> >example a bit more?
> 
> Well, if speed of rejection favours a node many times more than what it 
> is good at retrieving, then there is little or no selection pressure in 

It doesn't. Rate of rejection perhaps. But it has been explained that
the probability of a QueryRejection is multiplied by the sum of the
rejection time AND the time for a successful request from another node.

> favour of a given specialisation.  I am suggesting there is a threshold 
> of selection pressure below which it has no effect, because random 
> events in the node have a bigger effect on specialisation than any net 
> specialisation of requests, over relevant time periods.

Well unfortunately at the moment the probability of the node
QueryRejected'ing may well be a dominating factor in NGRouting - but I
don't think the solution is to radically alter NGRouting, the solution
is to make the nodes QR less.

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