It is now widely recognized that user interactions with search results can provide substantial relevance information on the documents displayed in the search results. In this pape...
Shihao Ji, Ke Zhou, Ciya Liao, Zhaohui Zheng, Gui-...
Existing value function approximation methods have been successfully used in many applications, but they often lack useful a priori error bounds. We propose a new approximate bili...
Concentration inequalities that incorporate variance information (such as Bernstein's or Bennett's inequality) are often significantly tighter than counterparts (such as...
In the field of robust optimization, the goal is to provide solutions to combinatorial problems that hedge against variations of the numerical parameters. This constitutes an effor...
Monaldo Mastrolilli, Nikolaus Mutsanas, Ola Svenss...
It is widely assumed and observed in experiments that the use of diversity mechanisms in evolutionary algorithms may have a great impact on its running time. Up to now there is no...