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COORDINATION
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
From Coordination to Stochastic Models of QoS
Abstract. Reo is a channel-based coordination model whose operational semantics is given by Constraint Automata (CA). Quantitative Constraint Automata extend CA (and hence, Reo) wi...
Farhad Arbab, Tom Chothia, Rob van der Mei, Sun Me...
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EMMCVPR
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Optimizing the Cauchy-Schwarz PDF Distance for Information Theoretic, Non-parametric Clustering
This paper addresses the problem of efficient information theoretic, non-parametric data clustering. We develop a procedure for adapting the cluster memberships of the data pattern...
Robert Jenssen, Deniz Erdogmus, Kenneth E. Hild II...
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GECCO
2007
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Convergence phases, variance trajectories, and runtime analysis of continuous EDAs
Considering the available body of literature on continuous EDAs, one must state that many important questions are still unanswered, e.g.: How do continuous EDAs really work, and h...
Jörn Grahl, Peter A. N. Bosman, Stefan Minner
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ICML
1996
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
A Convergent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm in the Continuous Case: The Finite-Element Reinforcement Learning
This paper presents a direct reinforcement learning algorithm, called Finite-Element Reinforcement Learning, in the continuous case, i.e. continuous state-space and time. The eval...
Rémi Munos
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GECCO
2008
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Recursive least squares and quadratic prediction in continuous multistep problems
XCS with computed prediction, namely XCSF, has been recently extended in several ways. In particular, a novel prediction update algorithm based on recursive least squares and the ...
Daniele Loiacono, Pier Luca Lanzi