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CORR
2011
Springer
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When is social computation better than the sum of its parts?
good solutions to complex problems. In many examples, individuals trying to solve superior global solution. This suggests that there may be general principles of information aggre...
Vadas Gintautas, Aric A. Hagberg, Luís M. A...
IJRR
2011
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Unifying geometric, probabilistic, and potential field approaches to multi-robot deployment
This paper unifies and extends several different existing strategies for deploying groups of robots in an environment. A cost function is proposed that can be specialized to rep...
Mac Schwager, Daniela Rus, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine
JMLR
2010
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A Convergent Online Single Time Scale Actor Critic Algorithm
Actor-Critic based approaches were among the first to address reinforcement learning in a general setting. Recently, these algorithms have gained renewed interest due to their gen...
Dotan Di Castro, Ron Meir
JSS
2010
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Accelerated collection of sensor data by mobility-enabled topology ranks
We study the problem of fast and energy-efficient data collection of sensory data using a mobile sink, in wireless sensor networks in which both the sensors and the sink move. Mot...
Constantinos Marios Angelopoulos, Sotiris E. Nikol...
QUESTA
2010
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Towards an Erlang formula for multiclass networks
Consider a multiclass stochastic network with state dependent service rates and arrival rates describing bandwidth-sharing mechanisms as well as admission control and/or load bala...
Matthieu Jonckheere, Jean Mairesse