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ICML
2008
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Reinforcement learning in the presence of rare events
We consider the task of reinforcement learning in an environment in which rare significant events occur independently of the actions selected by the controlling agent. If these ev...
Jordan Frank, Shie Mannor, Doina Precup
CHI
2001
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
On the road and on the Web?: comprehension of synthetic and human speech while driving
In this study 24 participants drove a simulator while listening to three types of messages in both synthesized speech and recorded human speech. The messages consisted of short na...
Jennifer Lai, Karen Cheng, Paul Green, Omer Tsimho...
P2P
2009
IEEE
137views Communications» more  P2P 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Analysis of Failure Correlation Impact on Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems
Abstract—Peer-to-peer storage systems aim to provide a reliable long-term storage at low cost. In such systems, peers fail continuously, hence, the necessity of self-repairing me...
Olivier Dalle, Frédéric Giroire, Jul...
QEST
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Mean-Field Analysis for the Evaluation of Gossip Protocols
—Gossip protocols are designed to operate in very large, decentralised networks. A node in such a network bases its decision to interact (gossip) with another node on its partial...
Rena Bakhshi, Lucia Cloth, Wan Fokkink, Boudewijn ...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
16 years 28 days ago
Time Slicing in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks with Arbitrary Channel Bit Rates
Abstract—Mobile TV networks have received significant attention from the industry and academia, as they have already been deployed in several countries and their expected market...
Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Mohamed Hefeeda