This paper is about Reinforcement Learning (RL) applied to online parameter tuning in Stochastic Local Search (SLS) methods. In particular a novel application of RL is considered i...
Although social research into group interaction has flourished since the 20th century, the technology of embodied conversational agents for handling multiparty interaction is stil...
We consider soft constraint problems where some of the preferences may be unspecified. This models, for example, settings where agents are distributed and have privacy issues, or ...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...
Most of the current trust models in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are identity based, which means that in order for one peer to trust another, it needs to know the other peer’s ide...
Li Lu, Jinsong Han, Lei Hu, Jinpeng Huai, Yunhao L...
We describe work in progress on tools and infrastructure to support adaptive component-based software for mobile devices— in our case, Apple iPhones. Our high level aim is ‘de...
Malcolm Hall, Marek Bell, Alistair Morrison, Stuar...