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CDC
2009
IEEE
132views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Q-learning and Pontryagin's Minimum Principle
Abstract— Q-learning is a technique used to compute an optimal policy for a controlled Markov chain based on observations of the system controlled using a non-optimal policy. It ...
Prashant G. Mehta, Sean P. Meyn
TASE
2010
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Intelligent Component-Based Automation of Baggage Handling Systems With IEC 61499
Airport Baggage Handling is a field of automation systems that is currently dependent on centralised control systems and conventional automation programming techniques. In this and...
Geoff Black, Valeriy Vyatkin
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
16 years 27 days ago
Service Time Approximation in IEEE 802.11 Single-Hop Ad-hoc Networks
Abstract— This paper investigates the near-memoryless behavior of the service time for IEEE 802.11 saturated single-hop ad hoc networks. We show that the number of packets succes...
Atef Abdrabou, Weihua Zhuang
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Coordination of first responders under communication and resource constraints
This paper discusses the application of distributed constraint optimization to coordination in disaster management situations under sub-optimal network conditions. It presents an ...
Robert N. Lass, Joseph B. Kopena, Evan Sultanik, D...
VEE
2005
ACM
130views Virtualization» more  VEE 2005»
16 years 4 days ago
The entropia virtual machine for desktop grids
Desktop distributed computing allows companies to exploit the idle cycles on pervasive desktop PC systems to increase the available computing power by orders of magnitude (10x - 1...
Brad Calder, Andrew A. Chien, Ju Wang, Don Yang