—Large scale production grids are an important case for autonomic computing. They follow a mutualization paradigm: decision-making (human or automatic) is distributed and largely...
— We present a learning mechanism, Socially Guided Exploration, in which a robot learns new tasks through a combination of self-exploration and social interaction. The system’s...
This paper describes a novel method by which a spoken dialogue system can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy from its experience interacting with human users. The method...
The execution order of a block of computer instructions on a pipelined machine can make a difference in running time by a factor of two or more. Compilers use heuristic schedulers...
Closed-loop control relies on sensory feedback that is usually assumed to be free. But if sensing incurs a cost, it may be coste ective to take sequences of actions in open-loop m...
Eric A. Hansen, Andrew G. Barto, Shlomo Zilberstei...