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GECCO
2006
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
On-line evolutionary computation for reinforcement learning in stochastic domains
In reinforcement learning, an agent interacting with its environment strives to learn a policy that specifies, for each state it may encounter, what action to take. Evolutionary c...
Shimon Whiteson, Peter Stone
GECCO
2007
Springer
187views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Defining implicit objective functions for design problems
In many design tasks it is difficult to explicitly define an objective function. This paper uses machine learning to derive an objective in a feature space based on selected examp...
Sean Hanna
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A smart hill-climbing algorithm for application server configuration
The overwhelming success of the Web as a mechanism for facilitating information retrieval and for conducting business transactions has led to an increase in the deployment of comp...
Bowei Xi, Zhen Liu, Mukund Raghavachari, Cathy H. ...
GECCO
2008
Springer
107views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
The influence of scaling and assortativity on takeover times in scale-free topologies
In evolving systems, the topological characteristics of population structure have a pronounced impact on the rate of spread of advantageous alleles, and therefore affect selective...
Joshua L. Payne, Margaret J. Eppstein
WSDM
2012
ACM
301views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
Learning evolving and emerging topics in social media: a dynamic nmf approach with temporal regularization
As massive repositories of real-time human commentary, social media platforms have arguably evolved far beyond passive facilitation of online social interactions. Rapid analysis o...
Ankan Saha, Vikas Sindhwani