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AAAI
2006
15 years 8 months ago
Sample-Efficient Evolutionary Function Approximation for Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning problems are commonly tackled with temporal difference methods, which attempt to estimate the agent's optimal value function. In most real-world proble...
Shimon Whiteson, Peter Stone
ICMAS
1998
15 years 8 months ago
Heterogeneity, Stability, and Efficiency in Distributed Systems
This paper explores the increasing the heterogeneity of an agent population to stabilize decentralized systems by adding bias terms to each agent's expected payoffs. Two appr...
James D. Thomas, Katia P. Sycara
HPCC
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Insertion Tree Phasers: Efficient and Scalable Barrier Synchronization for Fine-Grained Parallelism
This paper presents an algorithm and a data structure for scalable dynamic synchronization in fine-grained parallelism. The algorithm supports the full generality of phasers with d...
Stefan Marr, Stijn Verhaegen, Bruno De Fraine, The...
HPDC
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Efficient querying of distributed provenance stores
Current projects that automate the collection of provenance information use a centralized architecture for managing the resulting metadata - that is, provenance is gathered at rem...
Ashish Gehani, Minyoung Kim, Tanu Malik
SMA
2010
ACM
171views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Efficient simplex computation for fixture layout design
Designing a fixture layout of an object can be reduced to computing the largest simplex and the resulting simplex is classified using the radius of the largest inscribed ball cent...
Yu Zheng, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha