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ECAI
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Learning by Automatic Option Discovery from Conditionally Terminating Sequences
Abstract. This paper proposes a novel approach to discover options in the form of conditionally terminating sequences, and shows how they can be integrated into reinforcement learn...
Sertan Girgin, Faruk Polat, Reda Alhajj
ECAI
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Benefits of Combinatorial Auctions with Transformability Relationships
In this paper we explore whether an auctioneer/buyer may benefit from introducing his transformability relationships (some goods can be transformed into others at a transformation ...
Andrea Giovannucci, Jesús Cerquides, Juan A...
ECAI
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Asynchronous Forward-Bounding for Distributed Constraints Optimization
A new search algorithm for solving distributed constraint optimization problems (DisCOPs) is presented. Agents assign variables sequentially and propagate their assignments asynchr...
Amir Gershman, Amnon Meisels, Roie Zivan
ECAI
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Minion: A Fast Scalable Constraint Solver
Abstract. We present Minion, a new constraint solver. Empirical results on standard benchmarks show orders of magnitude performance gains over state-of-the-art constraint toolkits....
Ian P. Gent, Christopher Jefferson, Ian Miguel