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GECCO
2006
Springer
175views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
A computational theory of adaptive behavior based on an evolutionary reinforcement mechanism
Two mathematical and two computational theories from the field of human and animal learning are combined to produce a more general theory of adaptive behavior. The cornerstone of ...
J. J. McDowell, Paul L. Soto, Jesse Dallery, Saule...
EUROGP
2008
Springer
112views Optimization» more  EUROGP 2008»
15 years 1 months ago
Evolvability Via Modularity-Induced Mutational Focussing
Abstract. This work postulates a mechanism by which random genotypic variation is directed towards favourable phenotypic variation. Evolvability is a poorly understood concept at p...
Richard M. Downing
CMOT
2002
90views more  CMOT 2002»
14 years 11 months ago
Organizational Design, Information Transfer, and the Acquisition of Rent-Producing Resources
Within the resource-based view of the firm, a dynamic story has emerged in which the knowledge accumulated over the history of a firm and embedded in organizational routines and s...
Michael J. Lenox
ESAW
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A Goal-Oriented Approach for Modelling Self-organising MAS
Autonomous software agents provide a promising solution to the needs of decentralised networked systems, able to adapt their behaviour in a complex and dynamically changing environ...
Mirko Morandini, Frédéric Migeon, Ma...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
190views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
Adaptive Segmentation for Scientific Databases
In this paper we explore database segmentation in the context of a column-store DBMS targeted at a scientific database. We present a novel hardware- and scheme-oblivious segmentati...
Milena Ivanova, Martin L. Kersten, Niels Nes