—In Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), service brokers could find many service providers which offer same function with different quality of service (QoS). Under this condition...
Planning in single-agent models like MDPs and POMDPs can be carried out by resorting to Q-value functions: a (near-) optimal Q-value function is computed in a recursive manner by ...
For the foreseeable future, most data will continue to be stored in relational databases. To work with these data in ontology-based applications, tools and techniques that bridge t...
Martin J. O'Connor, Ravi Shankar, Samson W. Tu, Cs...
This paper presents a novel approach to particle filtering which minimizes the total tracking distortion by considering dynamic variance of proposal density and adaptive number o...
Cooperative checkpointing uses global knowledge of the state and health of the machine to improve performance and reliability by dynamically deciding when to skip checkpoint reque...