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VLDB
1995
ACM
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The Fittest Survives: An Adaptive Approach to Query Optimization
Traditionally, optimizers are “programmed” to optimize queries following a set of buildin procedures. However, optimizers should be robust to its changing environment to gener...
Hongjun Lu, Kian-Lee Tan, Son Dao
SIGGRAPH
1987
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model
The aggregate motion of a flock of birds, a herd of land animals, or a school of fish is a beautiful and familiar part of the natural world. But this type of complex motion is rar...
Craig W. Reynolds
AIIDE
2008
14 years 21 days ago
Effects of Communication on the Evolution of Squad Behaviours
As the non-playable characters (NPCs) of squad-based shooter computer games share a common goal, they should work together in teams and display cooperative behaviours that are tac...
Darren Doherty, Colm O'Riordan
AIPS
2008
14 years 20 days ago
Criticality Metrics for Distributed Plan and Schedule Management
We address the problem of coordinating the plans and schedules for a team of agents in an uncertain and dynamic environment. Bounded rationality, bounded communication, subjectivi...
Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Pedro A. Szekely
LISA
2008
14 years 20 days ago
Authentication on Untrusted Remote Hosts with Public-Key Sudo
Two common tools in Linux- and UNIX-based environments are SSH for secure communications and sudo for performing administrative tasks. These are independent programs with substant...
Matthew Burnside, Mack Lu, Angelos D. Keromytis