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GECCO
2006
Springer
175views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
14 years 20 days ago
A computational theory of adaptive behavior based on an evolutionary reinforcement mechanism
Two mathematical and two computational theories from the field of human and animal learning are combined to produce a more general theory of adaptive behavior. The cornerstone of ...
J. J. McDowell, Paul L. Soto, Jesse Dallery, Saule...
EUROGP
2008
Springer
112views Optimization» more  EUROGP 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Evolvability Via Modularity-Induced Mutational Focussing
Abstract. This work postulates a mechanism by which random genotypic variation is directed towards favourable phenotypic variation. Evolvability is a poorly understood concept at p...
Richard M. Downing
CMOT
2002
90views more  CMOT 2002»
13 years 8 months ago
Organizational Design, Information Transfer, and the Acquisition of Rent-Producing Resources
Within the resource-based view of the firm, a dynamic story has emerged in which the knowledge accumulated over the history of a firm and embedded in organizational routines and s...
Michael J. Lenox
ESAW
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Goal-Oriented Approach for Modelling Self-organising MAS
Autonomous software agents provide a promising solution to the needs of decentralised networked systems, able to adapt their behaviour in a complex and dynamically changing environ...
Mirko Morandini, Frédéric Migeon, Ma...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
190views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 10 months ago
Adaptive Segmentation for Scientific Databases
In this paper we explore database segmentation in the context of a column-store DBMS targeted at a scientific database. We present a novel hardware- and scheme-oblivious segmentati...
Milena Ivanova, Martin L. Kersten, Niels Nes