Shaping can be an effective method for improving the learning rate in reinforcement systems. Previously, shaping has been heuristically motivated and implemented. We provide a for...
We introduce the study of live social insect colonies as a relevant and exciting domain for the development and application of multi-agent systems modeling tools. Social insects p...
While early research on real-time computing was concerned with guaranteeing avoidance of undesirable effects such as overload and deadline misses, adaptive real-time systems are d...
Chenyang Lu, John A. Stankovic, Tarek F. Abdelzahe...
In this work, we show the importance of multidimensional opinion representation in the political context combining domain knowledge and results from principal component analysis. ...
We study properties of rough sets, that is, approximations to sets of records in a database or, more formally, to subsets of the universe of an information system. A rough set is a...