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Build better seniors' care: new CMA head.

F4Plan: An Approach to Build Efficient Adaptation Plans

Today’s society increasingly depends on software systems subject to varying environmental conditions imposing that they continuously adapt. A dynamic adaptation reconfigures a running system from a consistent state into another consistent state. To achieve this goal, a reconfiguration consists in executing a set of actions leading from source to target configuration. The planning of actions has...

HQ-Learning

HQ-learning is a hierarchical extension of Q()-learning designed to solve certain types of partially observable Markov decision problems (POMDPs). HQ automatically decomposes POMDPs into sequences of simpler subtasks that can be solved by memoryless policies learn-able by reactive subagents. HQ can solve partially observable mazes with more states than those used in most previous POMDP work.

New committee to oversee relationship between CMA, CMAJ.

332 JAMC • 4 FÉVR. 2003; 168 (3) The CMA has appointed a Journal Oversight Committee (JOC) to review journal content and “assist in maintaining harmonious relations between CMAJ and the association” (see Commentary, p. 287). Although the committee didn’t hold its initial meeting until December, a month after a well-publicized contretemps that followed publication of a controversial editorial (Q...

A new way to build cell lineages

A combination of single-cell techniques and computational analysis enables the simultaneous discovery of cell states, lineage relationships and the genes that control developmental decisions.