While exploring to nd better solutions, an agent performing online reinforcement learning (RL) can perform worse than is acceptable. In some cases, exploration might have unsafe, ...
Satinder P. Singh, Andrew G. Barto, Roderic A. Gru...
Abstract— In this paper we consider the problem of provisioning spare capacity in two-layer backbone networks using shared backup path protection. First, two spare capacity alloc...
Abstract. Service discovery in MANET suffers from frequent service unavailability due to failures of service providers or directory nodes. Ensuring network-wide service availabilit...
Vaskar Raychoudhury, Jiannong Cao, Weigang Wu, Yi ...
Abstract—Application-level protocols used for object delivery, such as HTTP, are built atop TCP/IP and inherit its hostabstraction. Given that these services are replicated for s...
We propose an adaptive middleware design for context-aware applications that abstracts the applications from the sensors that provide context. Further, we use application-specifi...