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ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Improving Asynchronous Backtracking for Dealing with Complex Local Problems
Distributed constraint satisfaction, in its most general acceptation, involves a collection of agents solving local constraint satisfaction subproblems, and a communication protoco...
Arnold Maestre, Christian Bessière
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Q-Decomposition for Reinforcement Learning Agents
The paper explores a very simple agent design method called Q-decomposition, wherein a complex agent is built from simpler subagents. Each subagent has its own reward function and...
Stuart J. Russell, Andrew Zimdars
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Comparison of GA and PSO performance in parameter estimation of microbial growth models: A case-study using experimental data
In this work we examined the performance of two evolutionary algorithms, a genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO), in the estimation of the parameters of a mo...
Dulce Calcada, Agostinho Rosa, Luis C. Duarte, Vit...
IAT
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Optimizing Agents Operation in Partially Inaccessible and Disruptive Environment
The algorithm we present in this paper aims to optimally distribute and connect the community of loosely coupled middle agents ensuring communication accessibility in a dynamic, i...
David Sislák, Martin Rehák, Michal P...
AGENTS
2001
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Wasp nests for self-configurable factories
Agent-based approaches to manufacturing scheduling and control have gained increasing attention in recent years. Such approaches are attractive because they o er increased robustn...
Vincent A. Cicirello, Stephen F. Smith