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CGI
2001
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Modeling and Rendering of Various Natural Phenomena Consisting of Particles
The simulation of various natural phenomena is one of the important research fields in computer graphics. In particular, aspects such as sky, clouds, water, fire, trees, smoke, te...
Tomoyuki Nishita, Yoshinori Dobashi
NIPS
2001
15 years 8 months ago
Model-Free Least-Squares Policy Iteration
We propose a new approach to reinforcement learning which combines least squares function approximation with policy iteration. Our method is model-free and completely off policy. ...
Michail G. Lagoudakis, Ronald Parr
CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
Spreadsheet modelling for solving combinatorial problems: The vendor selection problem
Spreadsheets have grown up and became very powerful and easy to use tools in applying analytical techniques for solving business problems. Operations managers, production managers...
Pandelis G. Ipsilandis
JMLR
2006
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15 years 7 months ago
Linear Programs for Hypotheses Selection in Probabilistic Inference Models
We consider an optimization problem in probabilistic inference: Given n hypotheses Hj, m possible observations Ok, their conditional probabilities pk j, and a particular Ok, selec...
Anders Bergkvist, Peter Damaschke, Marcel Lüt...
SIAMAM
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
A Thermal Elastic Model for Directional Crystal Growth with Weak Anisotropy
In this paper we present a semi-analytical thermal stress solution for directional growth of type III-V compounds with small lateral heat flux and weak anisotropy. Both geometric a...
Jinbiao Wu, C. Sean Bohun, Huaxiong Huang