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WSC
1997
15 years 8 months ago
Success Stories in Simulation in Health Care
Healthcare is a rapidly changing industry, and facilities are struggling to find tools to enhance their ability to keep up with the change. Healthcare staff have generally adapted...
Catherine Drury Barnes, Joaquin L. Quiason, Carson...
NIPS
1993
15 years 8 months ago
Using Local Trajectory Optimizers to Speed Up Global Optimization in Dynamic Programming
Dynamic programming provides a methodology to develop planners and controllers for nonlinear systems. However, general dynamic programming is computationally intractable. We have ...
Christopher G. Atkeson
ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Towards a unifying characterization for quantifying weak coupling in dec-POMDPs
Researchers in the field of multiagent sequential decision making have commonly used the terms “weakly-coupled” and “loosely-coupled” to qualitatively classify problems i...
Stefan J. Witwicki, Edmund H. Durfee
VLDB
2004
ACM
124views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
16 years 2 days ago
Automated Statistics Collection in DB2 UDB
The use of inaccurate or outdated database statistics by the query optimizer in a relational DBMS often results in a poor choice of query execution plans and hence unacceptably lo...
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Peter J. Haas, Sam Lightstone, G...
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DESRIST
2009
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
The constitutive and the instrumental in social design
Simon’s The Sciences of the Artificial is rightly influential as a founding text in design research in the information systems field (IS). Simon’s contributions in the same vo...
Murali Venkatesh