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WSC
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Expecting the unexpected: representing, reasoning about, and assessing construction project contingencies
Planning, scheduling and effective management of contingencies are crucial for the successful management of construction projects. In this paper we explore a mathematical represen...
G. Ryan Anderson, Nilufer Onder, Amlan Mukherjee
MASCOTS
2004
15 years 7 months ago
A Hysteresis Model for Web/TCP Transfer Latency
This paper presents an accurate stochastic model for transfer latency of short-lived Web-like TCP flows with random packet losses. Our model characterizes a data transfer in alter...
Yujian Li, Carey L. Williamson
WSC
2004
15 years 7 months ago
A Stochastic On-Line Model for Shipment Date Quoting with On-Time Delivery Guarantees
The paper introduces a new model for shipment date quoting with potential applications in E-commerce. First, a customer sends to the vendor a request for an item advertised at a c...
Yunpeng Pan, Leyuan Shi
UAI
2000
15 years 7 months ago
Learning to Cooperate via Policy Search
Cooperative games are those in which both agents share the same payoff structure. Valuebased reinforcement-learning algorithms, such as variants of Q-learning, have been applied t...
Leonid Peshkin, Kee-Eung Kim, Nicolas Meuleau, Les...
WSC
2000
15 years 7 months ago
Avatar kinematics modeling for telecollaborative virtual environments
This paper introduced the application of a more efficient mathematical representation of the kinematics of avatars, or digital human beings, in telecollaborative virtual reality e...
Cristian Luciano, Pat Banerjee