Activity-based Credit Assignment (ACA) Heuristic for Simulation-based Stochastic Search in a Hierarchical Model-base of Systems

Alexandre Muzy (1, 2) , Bernard P. Zeigler (3)

1 Laboratoire I3S - MDSC - Modèles Discrets pour les Systèmes Complexes
2 I3S - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux, et Systèmes de Sophia Antipolis
3 ECE - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering [Tucson]

Synthesis of systems constitutes a vast class of problems. Although machine learning techniques operate at the functional level, little attention has been paid to system synthesis using a hierarchical model-base. This paper develops an original approach for automatically rating component systems and composing them according to the experimental frames in which they are placed. Components are assigned credit by correlating measures of their participation (activity) in simulation runs with run outcomes. These ratings are employed to bias component selection in subsequent compositions.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Alexandre Muzy, Bernard P. Zeigler. Activity-based Credit Assignment (ACA) Heuristic for Simulation-based Stochastic Search in a Hierarchical Model-base of Systems. IEEE Systems Journal, 2017, 11 (4), pp.1916-1927. ⟨10.1109/JSYST.2014.2342534⟩. ⟨hal-01315156⟩