IT departments in non-IT small companies lack guidelines for defining the services they provide and for assigning costs to these services. This <irtide compare� intemalional models and standards and describes an approach that can be used by Lhese companies in order ro define and implement their service c<italog to be used as an input for !heir IT financial management. The proposed soluLion is b...

Reinforcement learning is the process by which an autonomous agent uses its experi­ ence interacting with an environment to im­ prove it::; beha.vior. The rVlarkov dec.ision pro­ cess (:\'lDP) modd is a popular way of for­ malizing the reinforcement-learning problem, but it it) by no meant; LIte only \-vay. In Lhitl paper, we show hmy IllaIlY of the important theoretical results concerning rein...

Chinese keyboard typing is fundamental training at school in Taiwan. For the sake of sharp learning curve, many CAI systems have been used to help teaching and learning. However, these CAI systems highly focus on learning results (say speed, accurate rate, etc) rather than learning pro cess. In this paper, we use adaptive learning strategy and agent-based technology to propose an adaptive Chine...

Many real-time scheduling algorithms use simplis-tic sets of assumptions and this limits their applicability in practice 6]. Often, a large real-time system has multiple scheduling algorithms and multi-level scheduling algorithms. Multiple algorithms arise when it is possible to partition the system into subsystems, each with their own algorithm. While this is a valuable approach , in this pape...

The generation of a high quality layout during the design of a VLSI microchip is a very complex combinatorial optimization prob lem Components of a circuit have to be placed and signal nets have to be routed on an overall minimal area In this paper a parallel Genetic Algorithm for the combined optimization of placement and routing is presented The main focus is on the self adaptation of the sea...

This paper introduces Open Planning Process Pan els O P These panels are based on explicit mod els of the planning process and are used to coor dinate the development and evaluation of multiple courses of action We describe the generic ideas behind O P technology a general methodology for build ing O P interfaces and two applications based on O P technology the Air Campaign Planning Pro cess Pa...

* Corresponding author address: Tom Greenwald, CIMSS, University of Wisconsin, 1225 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706-1695; e-mail: [email protected]. Cloud liquid water path (LWP) observed over the oceans by microwave sensors is one of only a handful of physical cloud parameters measured from space. These observations have had some use in, e.g., climate studies (Greenwald et al. 1995, Zuidema ...

Many real-time scheduling algorithms use simplis-tic sets of assumptions and this limits their applicability in practice 6]. Often, a large real-time system has multiple scheduling algorithms and multi-level scheduling algorithms. Multiple algorithms arise when it is possible to partition the system into subsystems, each with their own algorithm. While this is a valuable approach , in this pape...