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MIDDLEWARE
2005
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
An Optimal Overlay Topology for Routing Peer-to-Peer Searches
Unstructured peer-to-peer networks are frequently used as the overlay in various middleware toolkits for emerging applications, from content discovery to query result caching to di...
Brian F. Cooper
GCC
2003
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Dominating-Set-Based Searching in Peer-to-Peer Networks
— The peer-to-peer network for sharing information and data through direct exchange has emerged rapidly in recent years. The searching problem is a basic issue that addresses the...
Chunlin Yang, Jie Wu
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FOCS
1994
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
The Power of Team Exploration: Two Robots Can Learn Unlabeled Directed Graphs
We show that two cooperating robots can learn exactly any strongly-connected directed graph with n indistinguishable nodes in expected time polynomial in n. We introduce a new typ...
Michael A. Bender, Donna K. Slonim
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Transfer of task representation in reinforcement learning using policy-based proto-value functions
Reinforcement Learning research is traditionally devoted to solve single-task problems. Therefore, anytime a new task is faced, learning must be restarted from scratch. Recently, ...
Eliseo Ferrante, Alessandro Lazaric, Marcello Rest...
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CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Modeling multi-step relevance propagation for expert finding
An expert finding system allows a user to type a simple text query and retrieve names and contact information of individuals that possess the expertise expressed in the query. Thi...
Pavel Serdyukov, Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra