This paper argues for an alternative way of designing coordination models for parallel and distributed environments based on a complete symmetry between and decoupling of producers...
For semantic query optimization one needs detailed knowledgeabout the contents of the database. Traditional techniquesuse static knowledgeabout all possible states of the database...
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide an appropriately rich model for agents operating under partial knowledge of the environment. Since finding an opti...
Yan Virin, Guy Shani, Solomon Eyal Shimony, Ronen ...
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009) promised strict accounting of all funds spent and the publication of that information to the public in relative real-time. The fe...
Natalie Helbig, Evgeny Styrin, Donna S. Canestraro...
Bayesian Reinforcement Learning has generated substantial interest recently, as it provides an elegant solution to the exploration-exploitation trade-off in reinforcement learning...