An important research issue in multimedia databases is the retrieval of similar objects. For most applications in multimedia databases, an exact search is not meaningful. Thus, mu...
We present in this paper an approach aiming at adapting software components. It focuses on adapting component structures instead of adapting component services. Among the motivati...
In many different applications on the Web, distributed agents would like to discover and access high quality information sources. This is a challenging problem since an agent does...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) multimedia application is expected to be one of the most important services supported by the next generation networks. However, how to balance server load in re...
— This paper presents a new reinforcement learning algorithm for accelerating acquisition of new skills by real mobile robots, without requiring simulation. It speeds up Q-learni...