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WOSP
2000
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
A pattern-based approach to model software performance
In this paper we present a formal approach to analyse performance for distributed systems, which is integrated in the early stages of the software development process. We propose ...
José Merseguer, Javier Campos, Eduardo Mena
AAAI
2011
13 years 9 months ago
Understanding Natural Language Commands for Robotic Navigation and Mobile Manipulation
This paper describes a new model for understanding natural language commands given to autonomous systems that perform navigation and mobile manipulation in semi-structured environ...
Stefanie Tellex, Thomas Kollar, Steven Dickerson, ...
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Self-organization for coordinating decentralized reinforcement learning
Decentralized reinforcement learning (DRL) has been applied to a number of distributed applications. However, one of the main challenges faced by DRL is its convergence. Previous ...
Chongjie Zhang, Victor R. Lesser, Sherief Abdallah
FORMATS
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Convergence Verification: From Shared Memory to Partially Synchronous Systems
Verification of partially synchronous distributed systems is difficult because of inherent concurrency and the potentially large state space of the channels. This paper identifies ...
K. Mani Chandy, Sayan Mitra, Concetta Pilotto
CAISE
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Ontological Basis for Agent ADL
Abstract. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed or evolving software. To formally define system archit...
Stéphane Faulkner, Manuel Kolp