—Inspired by the biological entities’ ability to achieve reciprocity in the course of evolution, this paper considers a conjecture-based distributed learning approach that enab...
Quality control and resource optimization are challenging problems in peer-assisted video streaming systems, due to their large scales and unreliable peer behavior. Such systems a...
The Infrastructure of modern society is controlled by software systems that are vulnerable to attacks. Many such attacks, launched by "recreational hackers" have already...
Howard E. Shrobe, Robert Laddaga, Robert Balzer, N...
We present black-box techniques for learning how to interleave the execution of multiple heuristics in order to improve average-case performance. In our model, a user is given a s...
Matthew J. Streeter, Daniel Golovin, Stephen F. Sm...
The COTESYS cluster of excellence1 investigates cognition for technical systems such as vehicles, robots, and factories. Cognitive technical systems (CTS) are information processi...