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CORR
2012
Springer
193views Education» more  CORR 2012»
14 years 2 months ago
A Unifying Framework for Linearly Solvable Control
Recent work has led to the development of an elegant theory of Linearly Solvable Markov Decision Processes (LMDPs) and related Path-Integral Control Problems. Traditionally, LMDPs...
Krishnamurthy Dvijotham, Emanuel Todorov
GIS
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Use of rational numbers in the design of robust geometric primitives for three-dimensional spatial database systems
A necessary step in the implementation of three-dimensional spatial data types for spatial database systems and GIS is the development of robust geometric primitives. The authors ...
Brian E. Weinrich, Markus Schneider
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Optimal marketing strategies over social networks
We discuss the use of social networks in implementing viral marketing strategies. While influence maximization has been studied in this context (see Chapter 24 of [10]), we study ...
Jason D. Hartline, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Mukund Sunda...
KDD
2008
ACM
161views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
16 years 7 months ago
Locality sensitive hash functions based on concomitant rank order statistics
: Locality Sensitive Hash functions are invaluable tools for approximate near neighbor problems in high dimensional spaces. In this work, we are focused on LSH schemes where the si...
Kave Eshghi, Shyamsundar Rajaram
PODS
2005
ACM
151views Database» more  PODS 2005»
16 years 6 months ago
Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...