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PODS
1990
ACM
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On Being Optimistic about Real-Time Constraints
- Performancestudiesof concurrencycontrol algorithms for conventional database systems have shown that, under most operating circumstances, locking protocols outperform optimistic ...
Jayant R. Haritsa, Michael J. Carey, Miron Livny
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ANTSW
2004
Springer
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Cooperative Transport of Objects of Different Shapes and Sizes
This paper addresses the design of control policies for groups of up to 16 simple autonomous mobile robots (called s-bots) for the cooperative transport of heavy objects of differe...
Roderich Groß, Marco Dorigo
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Physical parameter optimization in swarms of ultra-low complexity agents
Physical agents (such as wheeled vehicles, UAVs, hovercraft, etc.) with simple control systems are often sensitive to changes in their physical design and control parameters. As s...
Ryan Connaughton, Paul W. Schermerhorn, Matthias S...
KRMED
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Fast Classification of SNOMED CT for Query and Integration of Health Data
By constructing local extensions to SNOMED we aim to enrich existing medical and related data stores, simplify the expression of complex queries, and establish a foundation for se...
Michael Lawley
WSC
2001
15 years 8 months ago
On improving the performance of simulation-based algorithms for average reward processes with application to network pricing
We address performance issues associated with simulationbased algorithms for optimizing Markov reward processes. Specifically, we are concerned with algorithms that exploit the re...
Enrique Campos-Náñez, Stephen D. Pat...