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AIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Stochastic Enforced Hill-Climbing
Enforced hill-climbing is an effective deterministic hillclimbing technique that deals with local optima using breadth-first search (a process called "basin flooding"). ...
Jia-Hong Wu, Rajesh Kalyanam, Robert Givan
CIE
2004
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Automating Lighting Design for Interactive Entertainment
Recent advances in computer graphics, particularly in real-time rendering, have caused major improvements in 3D graphics and rendering techniques used in interactive entertainment...
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Ian Horswill
ERLANG
2003
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Evaluating distributed functional languages for telecommunications software
The distributed telecommunications sector not only requires minimal time to market, but also software that is reliable, available, maintainable and scalable. High level programmin...
Jan Henry Nyström, Philip W. Trinder, David J...
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
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14 years 9 days ago
Load balancing via random local search in closed and open systems
In this paper, we analyze the performance of random load resampling and migration strategies in parallel server systems. Clients initially attach to an arbitrary server, but may s...
Ayalvadi Ganesh, Sarah Lilienthal, D. Manjunath, A...
NECO
2007
150views more  NECO 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Reinforcement Learning, Spike-Time-Dependent Plasticity, and the BCM Rule
Learning agents, whether natural or artificial, must update their internal parameters in order to improve their behavior over time. In reinforcement learning, this plasticity is ...
Dorit Baras, Ron Meir