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ISSRE
2002
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Effect of Disturbances on the Convergence of Failure Intensity
We report a study to determine the impact of four types of disturbances on the failure intensity of a software product undergoing system test. Hardware failures, discovery of a cr...
João W. Cangussu, Aditya P. Mathur, Raymond...
GECCO
2007
Springer
166views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 4 months ago
Understanding particle swarms through simplification: a study of recombinant PSO
Simplified forms of the particle swarm algorithm are very beneficial in contributing to understanding of what makes a PSO swarm function in the way that it does. One of these form...
Daniel Bratton, Tim Blackwell
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NIPS
2004
15 years 2 months ago
Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning
Psychologists call behavior intrinsically motivated when it is engaged in for its own sake rather than as a step toward solving a specific problem of clear practical value. But wh...
Satinder P. Singh, Andrew G. Barto, Nuttapong Chen...
AAAI
1996
15 years 2 months ago
On the Foundations of Qualitative Decision Theory
This paper investigates the foundation of rnaxipnin, one of the central qualitative decision criteria, using the approach taken by Savage (Savage 1972) to investigate the foundati...
Ronen I. Brafman, Moshe Tennenholtz
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CORR
2008
Springer
154views Education» more  CORR 2008»
15 years 27 days ago
Best-Effort Strategies for Losing States
We consider games played on finite graphs, whose goal is to obtain a trace belonging to a given set of winning traces. We focus on those states from which Player 1 cannot force a w...
Marco Faella