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MATA
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Spider Model of Agents
We take the position that large-scale distributed systems are better understood, at all levels, when locality is taken into account. When communication and mobility are clearly se...
F. Y. Huang, David B. Skillicorn
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Letting loose a SPIDER on a network of POMDPs: generating quality guaranteed policies
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (Distributed POMDPs) are a popular approach for modeling multi-agent systems acting in uncertain domains. Given the signi...
Pradeep Varakantham, Janusz Marecki, Yuichi Yabu, ...
VL
1999
IEEE
164views Visual Languages» more  VL 1999»
13 years 9 months ago
Reasoning with Spider Diagrams
Spider diagrams combine and extend Venn diagrams and Euler circles to express constraints on sets and their relationships with other sets. These diagrams can usefully be used in c...
John Howse, Fernando Molina, John Taylor, Stuart K...
GCC
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Parallel Web Spiders for Cooperative Information Gathering
Web spider is a widely used approach to obtain information for search engines. As the size of the Web grows, it becomes a natural choice to parallelize the spider’s crawling proc...
Jiewen Luo, Zhongzhi Shi, Maoguang Wang, Wei Wang
ML
2000
ACM
150views Machine Learning» more  ML 2000»
13 years 4 months ago
Adaptive Retrieval Agents: Internalizing Local Context and Scaling up to the Web
This paper discusses a novel distributed adaptive algorithm and representation used to construct populations of adaptive Web agents. These InfoSpiders browse networked information ...
Filippo Menczer, Richard K. Belew