1 Reinforcement learning has become a widely used methodology for creating intelligent agents in a wide range of applications. However, its performance deteriorates in tasks with s...
Many automatically-synthesized programs have, like their hand-made counterparts, numerical parameters that need to be set properly before they can show an acceptable performance. H...
This paper suggests an evolutionary approach to design coordination strategies, a key issue in distributed intelligent systems. We focus on competitive strategies in the form of f...
We consider the use of a database cluster for Application Service Provider (ASP). In the ASP context, applications and databases can be update-intensive and must remain autonomous....
Modern application infrastructures are based on clustered, multi-tiered architectures, where request distribution occurs in two sequential stages: over a cluster of web servers, a...
Debra E. VanderMeer, Helen M. Thomas, Kaushik Dutt...