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ICMAS
1998
15 years 1 months ago
Heterogeneity, Stability, and Efficiency in Distributed Systems
This paper explores the increasing the heterogeneity of an agent population to stabilize decentralized systems by adding bias terms to each agent's expected payoffs. Two appr...
James D. Thomas, Katia P. Sycara
PUK
2000
15 years 1 months ago
Knowledge-Based Control of Decision Theoretic Planning - Adaptive Planning Model Selection
This paper proposes a new planning architecture for agents operating in uncertain and dynamic environments. Decisiontheoretic planning has been recognized as a useful tool for rea...
Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Shirai
GECCO
2008
Springer
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15 years 25 days ago
Rigorous analyses of fitness-proportional selection for optimizing linear functions
Rigorous runtime analyses of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) mainly investigate algorithms that use elitist selection methods. Two algorithms commonly studied are Randomized Local S...
Edda Happ, Daniel Johannsen, Christian Klein, Fran...
CEC
2010
IEEE
14 years 12 months ago
Towards scalability in niching methods
— The scaling properties of multimodal optimization methods have seldom been studied, and existing studies often concentrated on the idea that all local optima of a multimodal fu...
Marcel Kronfeld, Andreas Zell
CPHYSICS
2007
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14 years 11 months ago
The ATLAS computing model: status, plans and future possibilities
The ATLAS Collaboration[1] has been preparing for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) running for more than 20 years. By summer of 2007 we expect the first colliding beams of protons and...
Shawn McKee