Today’s Information Technology (IT) organizations face significant challenges in delivering business value in these times of rapid architectural evolution as well as challenges in their ability to manage, provision, trust, and integrate the various elements of IT systems. An important aspect of these challenges is the impact IT has on the user and the user’s interaction with IT systems. Through...

We describe our experiences in trying to implement a hierarchical reinforcement learning system, and follow with conclusions that we have drawn from the difficulties that we encountered. We present our objectives before we started, the problems we encountered along the way, the solutions we devised for some of these problems, and our conclusions afterward about the class of problems for which r...

Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Problem and Applicability Statement Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract Current IEEE 802.1 LANs use spanning tree protocols that have a number of challenges. These protocols need to strictly avoid ...