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POLICY
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Goal-based Approach to Policy Refinement
As the interest in using policy-based approaches for systems management grows, it is becoming increasingly important to develop methods for performing analysis and refinement of p...
Arosha K. Bandara, Emil Lupu, Jonathan D. Moffett,...
ECML
2004
Springer
14 years 4 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
MOBIHOC
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
An adaptive strategy for maximizing throughput in MAC layer wireless multicast
Bandwidth efficiency of wireless multicast can be improved substantially by exploiting the fact that several receivers can be reached at the MAC layer by a single transmission. T...
Prasanna Chaporkar, Anita Bhat, Saswati Sarkar
POLICY
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Deriving Semantic Models from Privacy Policies
Natural language policies describe interactions between and across organizations, third-parties and individuals. However, current policy languages are limited in their ability to ...
Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón
POLICY
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Model for Usage Policy-Based Resource Allocation in Grids
Challenging usage policy issues can arise within virtual organizations (VOs) that integrate participants and resources spanning multiple physical institutions. Participants may wi...
Catalin Dumitrescu, Michael Wilde, Ian T. Foster
PDCAT
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Access Control List Mediation System for Large-Scale Network
Large-Scale network such as the Internet consist of a large number of sub-networks. Since each subnetwork has management privileges and policies individually, it is difficult to r...
Kanghee Lee, Zhefan Jiang, Sangok Kim, Sangwook Ki...
ECML
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Model-Based Online Learning of POMDPs
Abstract. Learning to act in an unknown partially observable domain is a difficult variant of the reinforcement learning paradigm. Research in the area has focused on model-free m...
Guy Shani, Ronen I. Brafman, Solomon Eyal Shimony
CCS
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
CPOL: high-performance policy evaluation
Policy enforcement is an integral part of many applications. Policies are often used to control access to sensitive information. Current policy specification languages give users ...
Kevin Borders, Xin Zhao, Atul Prakash
CASSIS
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Mobile Resource Guarantees and Policies
This paper introduces notions of resource policy for mobile code to be run on smart devices, to integrate with the proof-carrying code architecture of the Mobile Resource Guarantee...
David Aspinall, Kenneth MacKenzie
SACMAT
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Composing and combining policies under the policy machine
As a major component of any host, or network operating system, access control mechanisms come in a wide variety of forms, each with their individual attributes, functions, methods...
David F. Ferraiolo, Serban I. Gavrila, Vincent C. ...