This paper presents a model allowing to tune continual exploration in an optimal way by integrating exploration and exploitation in a common framework. It first quantifies exploration by defining the degree of exploration of a state as the entropy of the probability distribution for choosing an admissible action in that state. Then, the exploration/exploitation tradeoff is formulated as a globa...

As remote exploits further dwindle and perimeter defenses become the standard, remote client-side attacks are becoming the standard vector for attackers. Modern operating systems have quelled the explosion of client-side vulnerabilities using mitigation techniques such as data execution prevention (DEP) and address space layout randomization (ASLR). This work illustrates two novel techniques to...

introduction : root canal treatment (rct) success criteria inform us of the path to bony healing and of prognostic factors, but tell little about how the patient perceives, feels, or values rct. patients choose, undergo, and pay for rct, they live with the result, and inform their community. the purpose of this narrative review was to appraise patient-centered outcomes of initial non-surgical r...