Basically, instrumental conditioning is learning through consequences: Behavior that produces positive results (high “instrumental response”) is reinforced, and that which pro...
Verification and Simulation share many issues, one is that simulation models require validation and verification. In the context of simulation, verification is understood as the ta...
In sampling based hotspot detection, performance engineers sample the running program periodically and record the Instruction Pointer (IP) addresses at the sampling. Empirically, f...
Sequential pattern mining is an active field in the domain of knowledge discovery and has been widely studied for over a decade by data mining researchers. More and more, with the ...
In automated negotiation systems consisting of selfinterested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agents...