Abstract. Ada has proved to be one of the best languages to learn computer programming. Nevertheless, learning to program is difficult and when it is combined with lack of motivati...
Reinforcement learning algorithms that use eligibility traces, such as Sarsa(λ), have been empirically shown to be effective in learning good estimated-state-based policies in pa...
Self-organising multi-agent systems provide a suitable paradigm for developing autonomic computing systems that manage themselves. Towards this goal, we demonstrate a robust, dece...
Ramachandra Kota, Nicholas Gibbins, Nicholas R. Je...
Stigmergy is usually associated with semantically simple problems such as routing. It can be applied to more complex problems by encoding them in the environment through which sti...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Robert B...
Management of extra-functional properties in component models is one of the main challenges in the component-based software engineering community. Still, the starting point in thei...