Current middleware systems suffer from drawbacks. Often one is forced to make decisions early in the design process about which classes may participate in inter-machine communicat...
We investigate in this paper the performance of a file sharing principle similar to the one implemented by eMule. For this purpose, we consider a system composed of N peers becomi...
Florian Simatos, Philippe Robert, Fabrice Guillemi...
Abstract--It was shown recently that carrier sense multiple access (CSMA)-like distributed algorithms can achieve the maximal throughput in wireless networks (and task processing n...
We describe an evaluation of spoken dialogue strategies designed using hierarchical reinforcement learning agents. The dialogue strategies were learnt in a simulated environment a...
Sociologists, demographers, and economists often use the index of dissimilarity, D, to describe the extent of racial, ethnic, spatial, or areal dissimilarity (or segregation) of d...
Madhuri S. Mulekar, John C. Knutson, Jyoti A. Cham...