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INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Dynamic Load Balancers: Vulnerability Assessment and Design Tradeoffs
—One key adaptation mechanism often deployed in networking and computing systems is dynamic load balancing. The goal from employing dynamic load balancers is to ensure that the o...
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Yuti...
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Automatic computer game balancing: a reinforcement learning approach
Designing agents whose behavior challenges human players adequately is a key issue in computer games development. This work presents a novel technique, based on reinforcement lear...
Gustavo Andrade, Geber Ramalho, Hugo Santana, Vinc...
AUIC
2003
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Use of Video Shadow for Small Group Interaction Awareness on a Large Interactive Display Surface
This paper reports work done as part of the Large Interactive Display Surface(LIDS) project at the University of Waikato. One application of the LIDS equipment is distributed meet...
Mark D. Apperley, Laurie McLeod, Masood Masoodian
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Towards a motivation-based approach for evaluating goals
Traditional goal-oriented approaches to building intelligent agents only consider absolute satisfaction of goals. However, in continuous domains there may be many instances in whi...
Stephen J. Munroe, Michael Luck, Mark d'Inverno
ICMCS
2000
IEEE
115views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2000»
15 years 2 months ago
Adaptive Reservation: A New Framework for Multimedia Adaptation
— Research on multimedia adaptation usually assumes undifferentiated, best-effort service from the network, and relies on signaling mechanisms such as packet loss rates for feedb...
Xin Wang, Henning Schulzrinne