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SEMWEB
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Optimizing Web Service Composition While Enforcing Regulations
Abstract. To direct automated Web service composition, it is compelling to provide a template, workflow or scaffolding that dictates the ways in which services can be composed. I...
Shirin Sohrabi, Sheila A. McIlraith
ICDE
2001
IEEE
121views Database» more  ICDE 2001»
16 years 6 months ago
Integrating Semi-Join-Reducers into State of the Art Query Processors
Semi-join reducers were introduced in the late seventies as a means to reduce the communication costs of distributed database systems. Subsequent work in the eighties showed, howe...
Konrad Stocker, Donald Kossmann, Reinhard Braumand...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
15 years 11 months ago
Replanning with uncertainty in position: Sensor updates vs. prior map updates
— This paper presents two new approaches to planning with uncertainty in position that achieve better performance than existing techniques and that are able to incorporate change...
Juan Pablo Gonzalez, Anthony Stentz
ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Q-value functions for decentralized POMDPs
Planning in single-agent models like MDPs and POMDPs can be carried out by resorting to Q-value functions: a (near-) optimal Q-value function is computed in a recursive manner by ...
Frans A. Oliehoek, Nikos A. Vlassis
WSC
1998
15 years 6 months ago
Initializing On-line Simulations from the State of a Distributed System
In this paper, we address the complex task of initializing an on-line simulation to a current system state collected from an operating physical system. The paper begins by discuss...
Fernando G. Gonzalez, Wayne J. Davis