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POPL
2015
ACM
8 years 6 months ago
Manifest Contracts for Datatypes
We study algebraic datatypes in a manifest contract system, a software contract system where contract information occurs as refinement types. We first compare two simple approac...
Taro Sekiyama, Yuki Nishida, Atsushi Igarashi
POPL
2015
ACM
8 years 6 months ago
Algebraic Effects, Linearity, and Quantum Programming Languages
We develop a new framework of algebraic theories with linear parameters, and use it to analyze the equational reasoning principles of quantum computing and quantum programming lan...
Sam Staton
POPL
2015
ACM
8 years 6 months ago
Summary-Based Context-Sensitive Data-Dependence Analysis in Presence of Callbacks
Building a summary for library code is a common approach to speeding up the analysis of client code. In presence of callbacks, some reachability relationships between library node...
Hao Tang, Xiaoyin Wang, Lingming Zhang, Bing Xie, ...
ATAL
2015
Springer
8 years 6 months ago
Private Revision in a Multi-Agent Setting
Thomas Caridroit, Sébastien Konieczny, Tiag...
ATAL
2015
Springer
8 years 6 months ago
Policy Transfer using Reward Shaping
Transfer learning has proven to be a wildly successful approach for speeding up reinforcement learning. Techniques often use low-level information obtained in the source task to a...
Tim Brys, Anna Harutyunyan, Matthew E. Taylor, Ann...
ATAL
2015
Springer
8 years 6 months ago
Selling Tomorrow's Bargains Today
Consider a good (such as a hotel room) which, if not sold on time, is worth nothing to the seller. For a customer who is considering a choice of such goods, their prices may chang...
Melika Abolhassani, Hossein Esfandiari, MohammadTa...
ATAL
2015
Springer
8 years 6 months ago
Incremental Policy Iteration with Guaranteed Escape from Local Optima in POMDP Planning
Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide a natural framework to design applications that continuously make decisions based on noisy sensor measurements. The...
Marek Grzes, Pascal Poupart
ATAL
2015
Springer
8 years 6 months ago
Modeling Students Self-Studies Behaviors
In this work we propose a decision-theoretic approach to Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) that seeks to alleviate the need for extensive development and hand-tuning in the desi...
Pedro Mota, Francisco Melo, Luísa Coheur
ATAL
2015
Springer
8 years 6 months ago
Detecting Events and Sentiment on Twitter for Improving Urban Mobility
The streams of tweets from and to the Twitter account of urban transport operators have been considered. A computational module has been designed and developed in order to collect ...
Antonio Candelieri, Francesco Archetti
ATAL
2015
Springer
8 years 6 months ago
Using Agent-Based Tactics Models to Control Virtual Actors in VBS3
The computer-based simulation of military tactics has largely involved the use of platform-dependent scripting resulting in behaviour that is limited, and difficult to debug and r...
Rick Evertsz, John Thangarajah, Nik Ambukovski