Abstract. Many real world problems are given in the form of multiple measurements comprising local descriptions or tasks. We propose that a dynamical organization of a population o...
Abstract. We present a formalism for modeling replication in a distributed system with concurrent users sharing information. It is based on actions, which represent operations requ...
Marc Shapiro, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Nishith Krish...
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...
We address the problem of visually detecting causal events and tting them together into a coherent story of the action witnessed by the camera. We show that this can be done by re...
We propose a new approach to the problem of searching a space of policies for a Markov decision process (MDP) or a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP), given a mo...