This paper proposes an estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) aiming at addressing globally multimodal problems, i.e., problems that present several global optima. It can be r...
Group communication systems are proven tools upon which to build fault-tolerant systems. As the demands for fault-tolerance increase and more applications require reliable distrib...
Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Jonathan Robert Stanto...
We address the problem of advice-taking in a given domain, in particular for building a game-playing program. Our approach to solving it strives for the application of machine lea...
In this paper we consider two questions related to student modeling in an intelligent tutoring system: 1) What kind of student model should we build when we design a new system; 2...
In this paper, we argue for the power of providing a common set of OS services to wide area applications, including mechanisms for resource discovery, a global namespace, remote p...
Amin Vahdat, Thomas E. Anderson, Michael Dahlin, E...