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ECAI
2006
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Heuristic Bidding Strategies for Multiple Heterogeneous Auctions
Abstract. This paper investigates utility maximising bidding heuristics for agents that participate in multiple heterogeneous auctions, in which the auction format and the starting...
David C. K. Yuen, Andrew Byde, Nicholas R. Jenning...
ICML
1996
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Learning Evaluation Functions for Large Acyclic Domains
Some of the most successful recent applications of reinforcement learning have used neural networks and the TD algorithm to learn evaluation functions. In this paper, we examine t...
Justin A. Boyan, Andrew W. Moore
TSMC
2010
15 years 3 days ago
Optimizing Discounted Cash Flows in Project Scheduling - An Ant Colony Optimization Approach
Abstract--The multimode resource-constrained projectscheduling problem with discounted cash flows (MRCPSPDCF) is important and challenging for project management. As the problem is...
Wei-neng Chen, Jun Zhang, Henry Shu-Hung Chung, Ru...
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
An autonomous performance control framework for Distributed Multi-Agent Systems: a queueing theory based approach
Distributed Multi-Agent Systems (DMAS) such as supply chains functioning in highly dynamic environments need to achieve maximum overall utility during operation. The utility from ...
Nathan Gnanasambandam, Seokcheon Lee, Soundar R. T...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
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16 years 6 months ago
Network-Aware Join Processing in Global-Scale Database Federations
Abstract-- We introduce join scheduling algorithms that employ a balanced network utilization metric to optimize the use of all network paths in a global-scale database federation....
Xiaodan Wang, Randal C. Burns, Andreas Terzis, Amo...