This paper describes Icarus, an agent architecture that embeds a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm within a language for specifying agent behavior. An Icarus program e...
For newly designed or transformed business processes, accurately predicting business performances such as costs and customer services before actual deployment is very important. W...
This paper presents a novel method for optimizing sliding window based continuous queries. We deal with two categories of aggregation operations: stepwise aggregation (e.g. COUNT) ...
— This paper addresses the problem of planning for goal directed navigation in the environment that contains a number of possible adversary locations. It first shows that common...
We introduce HAIL (High-Availability and Integrity Layer), a distributed cryptographic system that allows a set of servers to prove to a client that a stored file is intact and r...