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AIPS
2010
15 years 2 months ago
When Policies Can Be Trusted: Analyzing a Criteria to Identify Optimal Policies in MDPs with Unknown Model Parameters
Computing a good policy in stochastic uncertain environments with unknown dynamics and reward model parameters is a challenging task. In a number of domains, ranging from space ro...
Emma Brunskill
TSMC
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Can You See Me Now? Sensor Positioning for Automated and Persistent Surveillance
Most existing camera placement algorithms focus on coverage and/or visibility analysis, which ensures that the object of interest is visible in the camera's field of view (FOV...
Yi Yao, Chung-Hao Chen, Besma R. Abidi, David L. P...
ECSCW
2003
15 years 1 months ago
When Can I Expect an Email Response? A Study of Rhythms in Email Usage
A study of email responsiveness was conducted to understand how the timing of email responses conveys important information. Interviews and observations explored users’ perceptio...
Joshua R. Tyler, John C. Tang
SRDS
2000
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Deterministic Scheduling for Transactional Multithreaded Replicas
One way to implement a fault-tolerant a service is by replicating it at sites that fail independently. One of the replication techniques is active replication where each request i...
Ricardo Jiménez-Peris, Marta Patiño-...
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AAAI
2008
15 years 2 months ago
Mathematical Modeling and Convergence Analysis of Trail Formation
An ant deposits pheromone along the path that it travels and is more likely to choose a path with a higher concentration of pheromone. The sensing and dropping of pheromone makes ...
Sameena Shah, Ravi Kothari, Jayadeva, Suresh Chand...