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NIPS
2003
15 years 8 months ago
Robustness in Markov Decision Problems with Uncertain Transition Matrices
Optimal solutions to Markov Decision Problems (MDPs) are very sensitive with respect to the state transition probabilities. In many practical problems, the estimation of those pro...
Arnab Nilim, Laurent El Ghaoui
CDC
2010
IEEE
144views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
Semiparametric identification of Hammerstein systems using input reconstruction and a single harmonic input
We present a two-step method for identifying SISO Hammerstein systems. First, using a persistent input with retrospective cost optimization, we estimate a parametric model of the l...
Anthony M. D'Amato, Kenny S. Mitchell, Bruno Ot&aa...
ICDE
2012
IEEE
204views Database» more  ICDE 2012»
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Multi-tenant Performance SLOs
—As traditional and mission-critical relational database workloads migrate to the cloud in the form of Databaseas-a-Service (DaaS), there is an increasing motivation to provide p...
Willis Lang, Srinath Shankar, Jignesh M. Patel, Aj...
WSC
2000
15 years 7 months ago
Simulating GI/GI/1 queues and insurance risk processes with subexponential distributions
This paper deals with estimating small tail probabilities of the steady-state waiting time in a GI/GI/1 queue with heavy-tailed (subexponential) service times. The problem of esti...
Nam Kyoo Boots, Perwez Shahabuddin
ICDE
2009
IEEE
156views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
16 years 8 months ago
Distributed Structural Relaxation of XPath Queries
Due to the structural heterogeneity of XML, queries are often interpreted approximately. This is achieved by relaxing the query and ranking the results based on their relevance to ...
Georgia Koloniari, Evaggelia Pitoura