A powerful approach to search is to try to learn a distribution of good solutions (in particular of the dependencies between their variables) and use this distribution as a basis ...
n abstract computer virology G. Bonfante, M. Kaczmarek, and J-Y Marion Loria, Calligramme project, B.P. 239, 54506 Vandœuvre-l`es-Nancy C´edex, France, and ´Ecole Nationale Sup...
Abstract. This research aims to develop a model of trust and reputation that will ensure good interactions amongst software agents in large scale open systems in particular. The fo...
Jigar Patel, W. T. Luke Teacy, Nicholas R. Jenning...
We propose a strategy to decompose a polygon, containing zero or more holes, into “approximately convex” pieces. For many applications, the approximately convex components of ...
In this paper, we consider energy-efficient gathering of correlated data in sensor networks. We focus on single-input coding strategies in order to aggregate correlated data. For ...