In this paper, we address the problem of building a system of autonomous agents for a complex environment, in our case, a museum with many visitors. Visitors may have varying pref...
Andrew S. Cantino, David L. Roberts, Charles L. Is...
Exotic semirings such as the “(max, +) semiring” (R ∪ {−∞}, max, +), or the “tropical semiring” (N ∪ {+∞}, min, +), have been invented and reinvented many times s...
A new publish/subscribe capability is presented: the ability to predict the likelihood that a subscription will be matched at some point in the future. Composite subscriptions con...
We are interested in contributing to solving effectively a particular type of real-time stochastic resource allocation problem. Firstly, one distinction is that certain tasks may c...
This paper presents the CQ algorithm which decomposes and solves a Markov Decision Process (MDP) by automatically generating a hierarchy of smaller MDPs using state variables. The ...