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CORR
2004
Springer
180views Education» more  CORR 2004»
13 years 7 months ago
Self-Organized Stigmergic Document Maps: Environment as a Mechanism for Context Learning
Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
Vitorino Ramos, Juan J. Merelo Guervós
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Work-centered design: a case study of a mixed-initiative scheduler
We present the case study of a complex, mixed-initiative scheduling system to illustrate Work-Centered Design (WCD), a new approach for the design of information systems. WCD is b...
Keith A. Butler, Jiajie Zhang, Chris Esposito, Ali...
PPOPP
2003
ACM
14 years 22 days ago
Improving server software support for simultaneous multithreaded processors
Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) represents a fundamental shift in processor capability. SMT's ability to execute multiple threads simultaneously within a single CPU offers ...
Luke McDowell, Susan J. Eggers, Steven D. Gribble
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
On proactivity and maintenance goals
Goals are an important concept in intelligent agent systems, and can take a variety of forms. One such form is maintenance goals, which, unlike achievement goals, define states th...
Simon Duff, James Harland, John Thangarajah
LION
2007
Springer
192views Optimization» more  LION 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Learning While Optimizing an Unknown Fitness Surface
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...
Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Paolo Campigotto