Abstract. We consider a control problem where the decision maker interacts with a standard Markov decision process with the exception that the reward functions vary arbitrarily ove...
Estimating the rate of Web page updates helps in improving the Web crawler’s scheduling policy. But, most of the Web sources are autonomous and updated independently. Clients li...
Batching jobs in a manufacturing system is a very common policy in most industries. Main reasons for batching are avoidance of setups and/or facilitation of material handling. Bat...
Abstract. In this short paper we describe the DFL hybrid knowledge base, that integrates descriptions with expressive object-oriented rules. The knowledge base manages a database o...
A workflow aggregates the underlying Web Services in a manner consistent with the desired functionality. Since CWS can contain atomic and other CWS they encourage the development ...