Agents can benefit from contracting some of their tasks that cannot be performedby themselves or that can be performed moreefficiently by other agents. Developing an agent's ...
We propose a distributed mechanism for finding websurfing strategies that is inspired by the StumbleUpon recommendation engine. Each day, a websurfer visits a sequence of websites ...
In the classic multi-armed bandits problem, the goal is to have a policy for dynamically operating arms that each yield stochastic rewards with unknown means. The key metric of int...
—Modern passive emitter-location systems are often based on joint estimation of the time-difference of arrival (TDOA) and frequency-difference of arrival (FDOA) of an unknown sig...
The Expectation Maximization EM algorithm is an iterative procedure for maximum likelihood parameter estimation from data sets with missing or hidden variables 2 . It has been app...