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QEST
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Performance Model of Zoned Disk Drives with I/O Request Reordering
—Disk drives are a common performance bottleneck in modern storage systems. To alleviate this, disk manufacturers employ a variety of I/O request scheduling strategies which aim ...
Abigail S. Lebrecht, Nicholas J. Dingle, William J...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Stigmergic reasoning over hierarchical task networks
Stigmergy is usually associated with semantically simple problems such as routing. It can be applied to more complex problems by encoding them in the environment through which sti...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Robert B...
MATES
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Coordinating Competitive Agents in Dynamic Airport Resource Scheduling
In real-life multi-agent planning problems, long-term plans will often be invalidated by changes in the environment during or after the planning process. When this happens, short-t...
Xiaoyu Mao, Adriaan ter Mors, Nico Roos, Cees Witt...
ATAL
1995
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Architecture of an Agent Building Shell
The agent view provides maybe the right level of abstraction for dealing with complex, distribblem-solving systems. It abstracts from aspects like the hardware or software platfor...
Mihai Barbuceanu, Mark S. Fox
GECCO
2007
Springer
326views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Binary differential evolution for the unit commitment problem
The Unit Commitment Problem (UCP) is the task of finding an optimal turn on and turn off schedule for a group of power generation units over a given time horizon to minimize ope...
Ali Keles