We present an approach that uses Q-learning on individual robotic agents, for coordinating a missiontasked team of robots in a complex scenario. To reduce the size of the state space, actions are grouped into sets of related behaviors called roles and represented as behavioral assemblages. A role is a Finite State Automata such as Forager, where the behaviors and their sequencing for finding ob...

In realistic multiagent systems, learning on the basis of complete state information is not feasible. We introduce adaptive state focus Q-learning, a class of methods derived from Q-learning that start learning with only the state information that is strictly necessary for a single agent to perform the task, and that monitor the convergence of learning. If lack of convergence is detected, the l...

The operational characteristics during transients are significantly influenced by magnetic saturation in electrical equipment. For the computation of steady-state rated operation multiphase induction machines, assumption linear behavior iron core classical machine models may be sufficient. mathematical considered differ terms existence or absence dynamic cross-saturation effects. approach that ...

We prove that Simulated Annealing with an appropriate cooling schedule computes arbitrarily tight constant-factor approximations to the minimum spanning tree problem in polynomial time. This result was conjectured by Wegener (2005). More precisely, denoting $n, m, w_{\max}$, and $w_{\min}$ number of vertices edges as well maximum edge weight MST instance, we simulated annealing initial temperat...

Answering a question of J. Lawson (formulated also earlier, in 1984, by Kamimura and Tang [Theoret. Comput. Sci. 34 (1984) 275–288]) we show that every Polish space admits a bounded complete computational model, as defined below. This results from our construction, in each Polish space 〈X,τ 〉, of a countable family C of non-empty closed subsets of X such that: (cp) each subset of C with the fin...

The main theorem says that any module-finite (but not necessarily commutative) algebra Λ over a commutative Noetherian universally catenary ring R is catenary. Hence the ring Λ is catenary if R is Cohen-Macaulay. When R is local and Λ is a Cohen-Macaulay R-module, we have that Λ is a catenary ring, dim Λ = dimΛ/Q + htΛQ for any Q ∈ Spec Λ, and the equality n = htΛQ− htΛP holds true for any pair...