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ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Cultivating desired behaviour: policy teaching via environment-dynamics tweaks
In this paper we study, for the first time explicitly, the implications of endowing an interested party (i.e. a teacher) with the ability to modify the underlying dynamics of the ...
Zinovi Rabinovich, Lachlan Dufton, Kate Larson, Ni...
GECCO
2008
Springer
160views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Self-managing agents for dynamic scheduling in manufacturing
The main purpose of this paper is to propose a Multi-Agent Autonomic and Bio-Inspired based framework with selfmanaging capabilities to solve complex scheduling problems using coo...
Ana Madureira, Filipe Santos, Ivo Pereira
PAMI
2006
156views more  PAMI 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Robust Point Matching for Nonrigid Shapes by Preserving Local Neighborhood Structures
In previous work on point matching, a set of points is often treated as an instance of a joint distribution to exploit global relationships in the point set. For nonrigid shapes, h...
Yefeng Zheng, David S. Doermann
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Stigmergic reasoning over hierarchical task networks
Stigmergy is usually associated with semantically simple problems such as routing. It can be applied to more complex problems by encoding them in the environment through which sti...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Robert B...
CP
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Encodings of the Sequence Constraint
Abstract. The SEQUENCE constraint is useful in modelling car sequencing, rostering, scheduling and related problems. We introduce half a dozen new encodings of the SEQUENCE constra...
Sebastian Brand, Nina Narodytska, Claude-Guy Quimp...