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WSC
2000
15 years 8 months ago
Variance reduction techniques for value-at-risk with heavy-tailed risk factors
The calculation of value-at-risk (VAR) for large portfolios of complex instruments is among the most demanding and widespread computational challenges facing the financial industr...
Paul Glasserman, Philip Heidelberger, Perwez Shaha...
TREC
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Drexel at TREC 2007: Question Answering
The TREC Question Answering Track presented several distinct challenges to participants in 2007. Participants were asked to create a system which discovers the answers to factoid ...
Protima Banerjee, Hyoil Han
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Self-organization for coordinating decentralized reinforcement learning
Decentralized reinforcement learning (DRL) has been applied to a number of distributed applications. However, one of the main challenges faced by DRL is its convergence. Previous ...
Chongjie Zhang, Victor R. Lesser, Sherief Abdallah
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Unibus-managed Execution of Scientific Applications on Aggregated Clouds
In this paper we examine the feasibility of running message passing applications across clouds. Our on-going Unibus project aims to provide a flexible approach to provisioning and ...
Jaroslaw Slawinski, Magdalena Slawiñska, Va...
CEC
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Learning to overtake in TORCS using simple reinforcement learning
In modern racing games programming non-player characters with believable and sophisticated behaviors is getting increasingly challenging. Recently, several works in the literature ...
Daniele Loiacono, Alessandro Prete, Pier Luca Lanz...