For intelligent robots to accomplish tasks in an unstructured environment, the adaptive critic algorithm has been shown to provide useful approximations or even optimal control policies to non-linear systems. The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of new learning control methods defined as Creative Learning or Creative Control that goes beyond the adaptive critic method for unstructure...

Adaptive governance is a concept of growing interest in the environmental policy and management literature (e.g., see Brunner and Steelman et al. 2005; Olsson et al. 2006; Scholz and Stiftel 2005). In general, adaptive governance refers to institutional change processes that are responsive to emerging problems or knowledge surrounding complex ecological systems. While some studies have provided...

Performance of the Adaptive RED scheme is susceptible to bursty web traffic. A parallel queue structure was proposed earlier to address this problem, where real time connections (such as web and UDP) and non-real time connections (such as FTP) are served in two different queues with droptail and Adaptive RED policies, respectively. In this paper a modified Adaptive RED scheme is proposed for th...

We propose a class of non-stationary policies called \policy time sharing" (p.t.s.), which possess several desirable properties for problems where the criteria are of the average-cost type; an optimal policy exists within this class, the computation of optimal policies is straightforward, and the implementation of this policy is easy. While in the nite state case stationary policies are also kn...

Programmers of relational database applications use software solutions (Hibernate, JDBC, LINQ, ADO.NET) to ease the development process of business tiers. These software solutions were not devised to address access control policies, much less for evolving access control policies, in spite of their unavoidable relevance. Currently, access control policies, whenever implemented, are enforced by i...