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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
15 years 5 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
15 years 4 months 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
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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
15 years 4 months 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