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ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Quantitative Law of Effect is a Robust Emergent Property of an Evolutionary Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning
An evolutionary reinforcement-learning algorithm, the operation of which was not associated with an optimality condition, was instantiated in an artificial organism. The algorithm ...
J. J. McDowell, Zahra Ansari
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Statistical analysis of the social network and discussion threads in slashdot
We analyze the social network emerging from the user comment activity on the website Slashdot. The network presents common features of traditional social networks such as a giant ...
Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Vicenç Gómez,...
SIGMETRICS
2004
ACM
206views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Performance aware tasking for environmentally powered sensor networks
The use of environmental energy is now emerging as a feasible energy source for embedded and wireless computing systems such as sensor networks where manual recharging or replacem...
Aman Kansal, Dunny Potter, Mani B. Srivastava
FCT
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Graph Searching, Elimination Trees, and a Generalization of Bandwidth
The bandwidth minimization problem has a long history and a number of practical applications. In this paper we introduce a natural extension of bandwidth to partially ordered layo...
Fedor V. Fomin, Pinar Heggernes, Jan Arne Telle