The paper has two purposes: rst, we argue that natural language processing, and particularly those aspects of that eld often referred to as language technology, should play an imp...
— The paper focuses on the problem how a community of distributed agents may autonomously invent and coordinate lexicons and grammars. Although our earlier experiments have shown...
A common feature of congestion control protocols is the presence of information packets used to signal congestion. We address here the question of how frequently such protocols nee...
We consider an MDP setting in which the reward function is allowed to change during each time step of play (possibly in an adversarial manner), yet the dynamics remain fixed. Simi...
Utility elicitation is a critical function of any automated decision aid, allowing decisions to be tailored to the preferences of a specific user. However, the size and complexit...