Aug 2026· Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Software-Defined Networks and 5G
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This paper proposes a novel approach to distributed system management called Dynamic Topo-Semantic Network Learning (DTSNL). DTSNL leverages reinforcement learning to enable systems to automatically discover and adapt to changes in underlying hardware and software topology. The core idea is to deploy agents, each responsible for a specific network node or resource, which learn both task execution and topological awareness. These agents utilize sensor data, logs, and monitoring information to observe and understand the network topology. The learning objective is to minimize communication latency, maximize resource utilization, and dynamically adjust routing and communication protocols to accommodate topological changes such as node failures, network congestion, or new node additions. A key component is a "topology-aware" reward function that incentivizes agents to learn sensitivity and adaptability to these changes. DTSNL represents a significant advancement over existing network learning methods that typically assume static topologies, offering a robust and self-optimizing solution for complex and dynamic network environments.
Model-based life-cycle evaluation indicates that AI-optimized PPP contracts reduce bridges reaching emergency condition by 30%–40% over a 30-year horizon while lowering life-cycle costs by 8%–12% compared with rule-based policies, providing infrastructure agencies and private concessionaires with an integrated AI-driven life-cycle management platform.
Ali Shehadeh, Odey Alshboul· Journal of Legal Affairs and...· 0 citations
Abstract The rapid development of artificial intelligence has significantly increased the availability of information, analytical capability, and machine-assisted reasoning. However, greater access to information does not necessarily produce better decisions. In many organizational contexts, the emerging bottleneck is no longer information acquisition, but the human and organizational capacity to determine what information is sufficient, when analysis should stop, when a decision should be made, and how outcomes should improve future judgment. This Foundational Note introduces Decision Intelligence Architecture (DIArc) as an architectural framework for Human–AI collaborative decision systems. DIArc is based on a central proposition: in the AI era, competitive advantage increasingly depends not on maximizing information, but on maximizing the rate at which high-quality decisions generate learning and improve judgment, under explicit constraints on information consumption and decision cycles. The architecture is organized into four theoretical layers. First, the Capability Inversion Hypothesis describes a structural shift in which information, knowledge, and analysis become increasingly abundant while judgment, commitment, execution, and learning become comparatively scarce capabilities. Second, Identity-driven Information Consumption (IDIC) describes a decision failure mechanism in which continued information consumption may serve identity reinforcement rather than decision improvement. Third, the Decision Constraint Architecture, comprising Decision Information Budget (DIB) and Decision Cycle Budget (DCB), introduces explicit constraints on information consumption and analytical iteration. Fourth, High-quality Decision Velocity (HQDV) describes the performance objective of accelerating completed high-quality decision loops, while Judgment Evolution Rate (JER) represents the longer-term evolutionary objective of improving judgment through outcome-based learning. This note constitutes the initial public disclosure of the DIArc architecture and establishes its theoretical baseline for subsequent research and branch concepts.
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