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AIPS
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Lower Bounding Klondike Solitaire with Monte-Carlo Planning
Despite its ubiquitous presence, very little is known about the odds of winning the simple card game of Klondike Solitaire. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the use o...
Ronald Bjarnason, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
AIPS
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Coordination Locales in Distributed POMDPs via Social Model Shaping
Distributed POMDPs provide an expressive framework for modeling multiagent collaboration problems, but NEXPComplete complexity hinders their scalability and application in real-wo...
Pradeep Varakantham, Jun-young Kwak, Matthew E. Ta...
ANTSW
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The Architecture of Ant-Based Clustering to Improve Topographic Mapping
Abstract. This paper analyzes the popular ant-based clustering approach of Lumer/Faieta. Analysis of formulae unveils that ant-based clustering is strongly related to Kohonen’s S...
Lutz Herrmann, Alfred Ultsch
AIPS
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Incremental Policy Generation for Finite-Horizon DEC-POMDPs
Solving multiagent planning problems modeled as DECPOMDPs is an important challenge. These models are often solved by using dynamic programming, but the high resource usage of cur...
Christopher Amato, Jilles Steeve Dibangoye, Shlomo...
ANTSW
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Rigorous Analyses for the Combination of Ant Colony Optimization and Local Search
Abstract. Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a metaheuristic that produces good results for a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. Often such successful applications us...
Frank Neumann, Dirk Sudholt, Carsten Witt
AMI
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
JXTA-SOAP: Implementing Service-Oriented Ubiquitous Computing Platforms for Ambient Assisted Living
The challenging context of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) demands for a service-oriented technological shift in the field of ubiquitous computing. Recently, novel paradigms have be...
Michele Amoretti, Maria Chiara Laghi, Francesco Za...
AISB
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Could a Created Being ever be Creative? Some Philosophical Remarks on Creativity and AI Development
: This paper allots creativity a central role in enabling human beings to develop beyond the undertaking and/or fulfilment of simple primary functions. This contention is significa...
Yasemin J. Erden