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Introduction: Special Issue on Expanded Papers from the First Workshop on Multimedia Semantics, November 28/29, 2002 in Milovy, Czech Republic, in Conjunction with SOFSEM 2002
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-11)
Predicting the Expected Behavior of Agents that Learn About Agents: The CLRI Framework
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-01)
We describe a framework and equations used to model and predict the behavior of multi-agent systems (MASs) with learning agents. A difference equation is used for calculating the progression of an agent's error in its ...
What Makes a Problem GP-Hard? Analysis of a Tunably Difficult Problem in Genetic Programming
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-06)
This paper addresses the issue of what makes a problem genetic programming (GP)-hard by considering the binomial-3 problem. In the process, we discuss the efficacy of the metaphor of an adaptive fitness landscape to explain ...
Estimating L ∞ Norms by L 2k Norms for Functions on Orbits
(Springer-Verlag; Society for the Foundation of Computational Mathematics, 2002-10-17)
Abstract. Let G be a compact group acting in a real vector space V . We obtain a number of inequalities relating the L ∞ norm of a matrix element of the representation of G with its L 2k norm for a positive integer k . As ...
Best-Effort Patching for Multicast True VoD Service
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-05)
A multicast Video-on-Demand (VoD) system allows clients to share a server stream by batching their requests, and hence, improves channel utilization. However, it is very difficult to equip such a VoD system with full support ...
Browse and Search Patterns in a Digital Image Database
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-01)
A prototype image retrieval system with browse and search capabilities was developed to investigate patterns of searching a collection of digital visual images, as well as factors, such as image size, resolution, and ...
A Dynamic Foundational Architecture for Semantic Web Services
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-03)
The combination of Web services and ontologies is gaining momentum as the potential silver bullets for tomorrow’s Web, i.e., the Semantic Web. We propose an architectural foundation for managing semantic Web services in ...
Dreams Versus Reality: Plenary Debate Session on Quantum Computing
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2003-12)
Rational Coordination in Multi-Agent Environments
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-12)
We adopt the decision-theoretic principle of expected utility maximization as a paradigm for designing autonomous rational agents, and present a framework that uses this paradigm to determine the choice of coordinated ...
Evolutionary techniques for updating query cost models in a dynamic multidatabase environment
(Springer-Verlag, 2004-05)
Deriving local cost models for query optimization in a dynamic multidatabase system (MDBS) is a challenging issue. In this paper, we study how to evolve a query cost model to capture a slowly-changing dynamic MDBS environment ...