We study the stochastic machine replenishment problem, which is a canonical special case of closed multiclass queuing systems in Markov decision theory. The problem models the sche...
This paper considers online stochastic optimization problems where time constraints severely limit the number of offline optimizations which can be performed at decision time and/...
Multiobjective optimization deals with problems involving multiple measures of performance that should be optimized simultaneously. In this paper we extend bucket elimination (BE),...
Deterministic annealing and relaxation labeling algorithms for classification and matching are presented and discussed. A new approach--self annealing--is introduced to bring dete...
On January 28th , 2007, Jim Gray sailed his 40 foot sailboat, Tenacious, on a day cruise to the Farallon Islands off San Francisco and was reported overdue when he didn't ret...