Selecting an optimum maintenance policy independent of other parameters of the production system does not always yield the overall optimum operating conditions. For instance, high...
We describe an evaluation of spoken dialogue strategies designed using hierarchical reinforcement learning agents. The dialogue strategies were learnt in a simulated environment a...
Most real-world negotiation scenarios involve multiple, interdependent issues. These scenarios are specially challenging because the agents' utility functions are nonlinear, ...
In RoboCup-98, sparrows team worked hard just to get both a simulation and a middle size robot team to work and to successfully participate in a major tournament. For this year, we...
Contemporary product design and process development is based on an iterative specify-evaluate-revise approach which is often time intensive and therein non-responsive to customer ...
Max Blair, Steven R. LeClair, Jeffrey V. Zweber, A...