The aim of this paper is to propose a joint cross-layer approach between application layer and MAC layer for enhancing Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia applications. Bandwidth adaptation scheme based on application utility function is used in the application layer as it reflects the satisfaction degree of end-users with the allocated bandwidth. Prioritized Weight Assignment (PWA) in MAC ...

Episodic control has been proposed as a third approach to reinforcement learning, besides model-free and model-based control, by analogy with the three types of human memory. i.e. episodic, procedural and semantic memory. But the theoretical properties of episodic control are not well investigated. Here I show that in deterministic tree Markov decision processes, episodic control is equivalent ...

This paper proposes a formalism for nonmonotonic reasoning based on prioritized argumentation. We argue that nonmonotonic reasoning in general can be viewed as selecting monotonic inferences by a simple notion of priority among inference rules. More importantly, these types of constrained inferences can be speciied in a knowledge representation language where a theory consists of a collection o...

This paper shows how action theories, expressed in an extended version of the languageB, can be naturally encoded using Prioritized Default Theory. We also show how prioritizeddefault theory can be extended to express preferences between rules. This extension providesa natural framework to introduce different types of preferences in action theories—preferencesbetween actions...

With limited international resources for family planning, donors must decide how to allocate their funds to different countries. How can a donor for family planning decide whether countries are adequately prioritized for funding? This article proposes an ordinal ranking framework to identify under-prioritized countries by rank-ordering countries by their need for family planning and separately ...

In this paper, we propose an enhanced packet scheduling scheme to favour UEs that experienced handover (HO) in wireless mobile networks. The main idea of the proposed scheme is not only prioritized the HO connections at the CAC level but also prioritized the HO connections at the scheduler level. At the CAC level, a guard code scheme favours HO calls over new calls. At the scheduler level, a Pa...

In this paper, we present the PR-lock, a prioritized spin-lock mutual exclusion algorithm for real time systems. The PR-lock is a contention-free spin lock, in which blocked processes spin on locally stored or cached variables. In contrast to previous work on prioritized spin locks, our algorithm maintains a pointer to the lock holder. As a result, our spin lock can support priority inheritance...

In this paper we present a new class of operators based on Trapezoid Fuzzy numbers such as Trapezoid Fuzzy Prioritized Weighted Mean (TFPWM) operator, Trapezoid Fuzzy Prioritized Weighted Geometric Average (TFPWG), Trapezoid Fuzzy Prioritized Weighted Harmonic Average(TFPWH) operators to solve multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems. Unlike other (MAGDM) techniques here the at...

We present a new algorithm, Prioritized Sweeping, for e cient prediction and control of stochastic Markov systems. Incremental learning methods such as Temporal Di erencing and Qlearning have fast real time performance. Classical methods are slower, but more accurate, because they make full use of the observations. Prioritized Sweeping aims for the best of both worlds. It uses all previous expe...