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BIOADIT
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The Genealogy of Biomimetics: Half a Century?s Quest for Dynamic IT
Abstract. Biologically inspired approaches to the design of general IT are presently flourishing. Investigating the scientific and historical roots of the tendency will serve to pr...
Mikkel Holm Sørensen
BIRTHDAY
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Trace Semantics for Long-Running Transactions
Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...
Michael J. Butler, C. A. R. Hoare, Carla Ferreira
CRYPTO
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Round-Optimal Secure Two-Party Computation
Abstract. We consider the central cryptographic task of secure twoparty computation, where two parties wish to compute some function of their private inputs (each receiving possibl...
Jonathan Katz, Rafail Ostrovsky
ECML
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Batch Reinforcement Learning with State Importance
Abstract. We investigate the problem of using function approximation in reinforcement learning where the agent’s policy is represented as a classifier mapping states to actions....
Lihong Li, Vadim Bulitko, Russell Greiner
EGOV
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
PARMENIDES: Facilitating Democratic Debate
Abstract. This paper describes PARMENIDES, a system which facilitates structured debate about government policy. 1 The PARMENIDES System The last two decades have seen a deliberati...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter Mc...