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SAB
2010
Springer
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Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks for Robust Locomotion Control of Modular Robots
Designing controllers for modular robots is difficult due to the distributed and dynamic nature of the robots. In this paper fractal gene regulatory networks are evolved to control...
Payam Zahadat, David Johan Christensen, Ulrik Pagh...
SAB
2010
Springer
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Co-development of Linguistic and Behavioural Skills: Compositional Semantics and Behaviour Generalisation
Abstract. Population of simulated agents controlled by dynamical neural networks are trained by artificial evolution to access linguistic instructions and to execute them by indic...
Elio Tuci, Tomassino Ferrauto, Gianluca Massera, S...
SAB
2010
Springer
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A Cortical Column Model for Multiscale Spatial Planning
Louis-Emmanuel Martinet, Angelo Arleo
SAB
2010
Springer
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Simulation of How Neuromodulation Influences Cooperative Behavior
Abstract. Neuromodulators can have a strong effect on how organisms cooperate and compete for resources. To better understand the effect of neuromodulation on cooperative behavior,...
Andrew Zaldivar, Derrik E. Asher, Jeffrey L. Krich...
SAB
2010
Springer
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Simulating Human Table Tennis with a Biomimetic Robot Setup
Playing table tennis is a difficult motor task which requires fast movements, accurate control and adaptation to task parameters. Although human beings see and move slower than mos...
Katharina Mülling, Jens Kober, Jan Peters
PE
2010
Springer
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Analysis of scheduling policies under correlated job sizes
Correlations in traffic patterns are an important facet of the workloads faced by real systems, and one that has far-reaching consequences on the performance and optimization of t...
Varun Gupta, Michelle Burroughs, Mor Harchol-Balte...
PE
2010
Springer
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Approximating passage time distributions in queueing models by Bayesian expansion
We introduce Bayesian Expansion (BE), an approximate numerical technique for passage time distribution analysis in queueing networks. BE uses a class of Bayesian networks to appro...
Giuliano Casale
PE
2010
Springer
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Optimal server scheduling in hybrid P2P networks
We consider the server scheduling problem in hybrid P2P networks in the context of a fluid model. Specifically, we examine how to allocate the limited amount of server upload ca...
Bo Zhang, Sem C. Borst, Martin I. Reiman
PE
2010
Springer
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Tail-robust scheduling via limited processor sharing
From a rare events perspective, scheduling disciplines that work well under light (exponential) tailed workload distributions do not perform well under heavy (power) tailed worklo...
Jayakrishnan Nair, Adam Wierman, Bert Zwart
PE
2010
Springer
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Server farms with setup costs
In this paper we consider server farms with a setup cost. This model is common in manufacturing systems and data centers, where there is a cost to turn servers on. Setup costs alw...
Anshul Gandhi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Ivo Adan