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SAC
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
A decision-theoretic approach for designing proactive communication in multi-agent teamwork
Techniques that support effective communication during teamwork processes are of particular importance. Psychological study shows that an effective team often can anticipate infor...
Yu Zhang, Richard A. Volz, Thomas R. Ioerger, John...
COLT
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Convergence of Discrete MDL for Sequential Prediction
We study the properties of the Minimum Description Length principle for sequence prediction, considering a two-part MDL estimator which is chosen from a countable class of models....
Jan Poland, Marcus Hutter
GECCO
2004
Springer
115views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
15 years 12 months ago
Parameter-Less Hierarchical BOA
Abstract. The parameter-less hierarchical Bayesian optimization algorithm (hBOA) enables the use of hBOA without the need for tuning parameters for solving each problem instance. T...
Martin Pelikan, Tz-Kai Lin
WDAG
2004
Springer
88views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2004»
15 years 11 months ago
Nonblocking Concurrent Data Structures with Condition Synchronization
We apply the classic theory of linearizability to operations that must wait for some other thread to establish a precondition. We model such an operation as a request and a follow-...
William N. Scherer III, Michael L. Scott
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Transition-independent decentralized markov decision processes
There has been substantial progress with formal models for sequential decision making by individual agents using the Markov decision process (MDP). However, similar treatment of m...
Raphen Becker, Shlomo Zilberstein, Victor R. Lesse...