The paper describes a simulation substrate that allows thinking agents to interact with a world. The world is simulated by standard discrete event simulation, but the timing of an...
This paper presents a discussion of simulation-related issues arising in the study of self-similar network traffic with respect to its effect and control. Selfsimilar traffic has...
Outcomes of this modeling research are the ability to facilitate comparisons of investment alternatives or strategies; regarding primary targets, possible annual revenues, promoti...
: Partially-observable Markov decision processes provide a very general model for decision-theoretic planning problems, allowing the trade-offs between various courses of actions t...
This paper describes the results of applying a modified version of hierarchical task-network (HTN) planning to the problem of declarer play in contract bridge. We represent inform...
Stephen J. J. Smith, Dana S. Nau, Thomas A. Throop