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JOT
2010
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A Tool for Specifying and Validating Agents' Interaction Protocols: From Agent UML to Maude
To achieve the multi-agent systems’ goals, agents interact to exchange information, to cooperate and to coordinate their tasks. Interaction is generally recognized as an importa...
Farid Mokhati, Brahim Sahraoui, Soufiane Bouzaher,...
KBSE
2010
IEEE
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Reducing estimation uncertainty with continuous assessment: tracking the "cone of uncertainty"
Accurate software cost and schedule estimations are essential especially for large software projects. However, once the required efforts have been estimated, little is done to rec...
Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn, Chatchai Sinthop, Barry W...
NA
2010
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Semi-definite programming techniques for structured quadratic inverse eigenvalue problems
In the past decade or so, semi-definite programming (SDP) has emerged as a powerful tool capable of handling a remarkably wide range of problems. This article describes an innovat...
Matthew M. Lin, Bo Dong, Moody T. Chu
NOMS
2010
IEEE
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Performance-driven task co-scheduling for MapReduce environments
—MapReduce is a data-driven programming model proposed by Google in 2004 which is especially well suited for distributed data analytics applications. We consider the management o...
Jorda Polo, David Carrera, Yolanda Becerra, Malgor...
SAB
2010
Springer
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Indirectly Encoding Neural Plasticity as a Pattern of Local Rules
Biological brains can adapt and learn from past experience. In neuroevolution, i.e. evolving artificial neural networks (ANNs), one way that agents controlled by ANNs can evolve t...
Sebastian Risi, Kenneth O. Stanley