Option discovery and skill acquisition frameworks are integral to the functioning of a hierarchically organized Reinforcement learning agent. However, such techniques often yield large number options or skills, which can be represented succinctly by filtering out any redundant information. Such reduction decrease required computation while also improving performance on target task. To compress ...

Thomas Karcher Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany [email protected] Christopher Guckes Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany [email protected] Walter F. Tichy Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization Karlsruhe Institute...

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) and, in particular, Web Services designs are widely adopted for the development of interoperable systems. In a dynamic scenario, a composed service may exploit component services in order to complete its task; composed services are variously distributed, and offered by different providers in different security domains and under different load conditions. So,...

In Arabidopsis, pre-mRNAs of serine/arginine-rich (SR) proteins undergo extensive alternative splicing (AS). However, little is known about the cis-elements and trans-acting proteins involved in regulating AS. Using a splicing reporter (GFP-intron-GFP), consisting of the GFP coding sequence interrupted by an alternatively spliced intron of SCL33, we investigated whether cis-elements within this...

Active replication is a common approach to building highly available and reliable distributed software applications. The redundant nested invocation (RNI) problem arises when servers in a replicated group issues nested invocations to other server groups in response to a client invocation. Automatic suppression of RNI is always a desirable solution, yet it is usually a difficult design issue. If...

Multicast connections with the one-to-many communication model can reduce the loads of server and network by removing redundant traffic. In this paper, based on this architecture, we present our design of a surveillance system where users can retrieve live and pre-recorded surveillance video from any spots under surveillance through wire/wireless WEB devices or PSTN auto-dialup networks. To pro...

An enhanced detection and isolation method to monitor the state-of-practice triplex redundant angle of attack measurements on modern civil transport aircraft is presented. The developed fault detection and diagnosis architecture relies on advanced model and signal based techniques monitoring each of the three sensors individually. This allows the correct isolation of erroneous sensors also in c...