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GECCO
2010
Springer
191views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Fitness importance for online evolution
To complement standard fitness functions, we propose "Fitness Importance" (FI) as a novel meta-heuristic for online learning systems. We define FI and show how it can be...
Philip Valencia, Raja Jurdak, Peter Lindsay
ICDCS
2003
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Performance Guarantees for Cluster-Based Internet Services
As web-based transactions become an essential element of everyday corporate and commerce activities, it becomes increasingly important that the performance of web-based services b...
Chang Li, Gang Peng, Kartik Gopalan, Tzi-cker Chiu...
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
On the benefits of decomposing policy engines into components
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
Konstantin Beznosov
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
On optimal outcomes of negotiations over resources
We analyse scenarios in which self-interested agents negotiate with each other in order to agree on deals to exchange resources. We consider two variants of the framework, one whe...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Argumentative alternating offers
This paper presents an argumentative version of the well known alternating offers negotiation protocol. The negotichanism is based on an abstract preference based argumentation fr...
Nabila Hadidi, Yannis Dimopoulos, Pavlos Moraitis