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SIGMETRICS
2004
ACM
16 years 6 days ago
Insensitive load balancing
A large variety of communication systems, including telephone and data networks, can be represented by so-called Whittle networks. The stationary distribution of these networks is...
Thomas Bonald, Matthieu Jonckheere, Alexandre Prou...
AIS
2004
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
Continuity and Change (Activity) Are Fundamentally Related in DEVS Simulation of Continuous Systems
Abstract. The success of DEVS methods for simulating large continuous models calls for more in-depth examination of the applicability of discrete events in modeling continuous phen...
Bernard P. Zeigler, Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka, Sal...
ASIAN
2004
Springer
109views Algorithms» more  ASIAN 2004»
16 years 5 days ago
Online Stochastic and Robust Optimization
This paper considers online stochastic optimization problems where uncertainties are characterized by a distribution that can be sampled and where time constraints severely limit t...
Russell Bent, Pascal Van Hentenryck
GECCO
2004
Springer
130views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
16 years 5 days ago
The Shifting Balance Genetic Algorithm as More than Just Another Island Model GA
The Shifting Balance Genetic Algorithm (SBGA) is an extension of the Genetic Algorithm (GA) that was created to promote guided diversity to improve performance in highly multimodal...
Mark Wineberg, Jun Chen
SBIA
2004
Springer
16 years 4 days ago
Heuristically Accelerated Q-Learning: A New Approach to Speed Up Reinforcement Learning
This work presents a new algorithm, called Heuristically Accelerated Q–Learning (HAQL), that allows the use of heuristics to speed up the well-known Reinforcement Learning algori...
Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi, Carlos H. C. Ribeiro, Anna...