In order to maintain their performance in a dynamic environment, agents may be required to modify their learning behavior during run-time. If an agent utilizes a rule-based system...
Stephen Quirolgico, K. Canfield, Timothy W. Finin,...
Database applications such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and decision support systems (DSS) constitute the largest and fastest-growing segment of the market for multipro...
Performance modeling and evaluation of embedded hardware/software systems is important to help the CoDesign process. The hardware/software partitioning needs to be evaluated befor...
Jean Paul Calvez, Dominique Heller, Olivier Pasqui...
We consider cluster systems with multiple nodes where each server is prone to run tasks at a degraded level of service due to some software or hardware fault. The cluster serves t...
A primary goal of evolutionary robotics is to create systems that are as robust and adaptive as the human body. Moving toward this goal often involves training control systems tha...