While medium- and large-sized computing centers have increasingly relied on clusters of commodity PC hardware to provide cost-effective capacity and capability, it is not clear th...
Ron Sass, William V. Kritikos, Andrew G. Schmidt, ...
This paper introduces a new algorithm, Q2, foroptimizingthe expected output ofamultiinput noisy continuous function. Q2 is designed to need only a few experiments, it avoids stron...
Andrew W. Moore, Jeff G. Schneider, Justin A. Boya...
A constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) model can be preprocessed to ensure that any choices made will lead to solutions, without the need to backtrack. This can be especially usef...
J. Christopher Beck, Tom Carchrae, Eugene C. Freud...
The growing percentage of elderly population imposes an urgent need to develop new approaches to care provision. Integration of a number of technologies such as multi-agent systems...
Intelligent agents must update their knowledge base as they acquire new information about their environment. The modal logic S5n has been designed for representing knowledge bases...