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IWANN
1999
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Using Temporal Neighborhoods to Adapt Function Approximators in Reinforcement Learning
To avoid the curse of dimensionality, function approximators are used in reinforcement learning to learn value functions for individual states. In order to make better use of comp...
R. Matthew Kretchmar, Charles W. Anderson
PPSN
1998
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
A Spatial Predator-Prey Approach to Multi-objective Optimization: A Preliminary Study
This paper presents a novel evolutionary approach of approximating the shape of the Pareto-optimal set of multi-objective optimization problems. The evolutionary algorithm (EA) use...
Marco Laumanns, Günter Rudolph, Hans-Paul Sch...
IAT
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Using Prior Knowledge to Improve Distributed Hill Climbing
The Distributed Probabilistic Protocol (DPP) is a new, approximate algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DCSPs) that exploits prior knowledge to impr...
Roger Mailler
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Emerging coordination in infinite team Markov games
In this paper we address the problem of coordination in multi-agent sequential decision problems with infinite statespaces. We adopt a game theoretic formalism to describe the int...
Francisco S. Melo, M. Isabel Ribeiro
ICC
2007
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Maximizing Throughput in Layered Peer-to-Peer Streaming
—Layered streaming is an effective solution to address the receiver heterogeneity in peer-to-peer (P2P) multimedia distribution. This paper targets a fundamental challenge in thi...
Liang Dai, Yi Cui, Yuan Xue