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AAAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Restart Schedules for Ensembles of Problem Instances
The mean running time of a Las Vegas algorithm can often be dramatically reduced by periodically restarting it with a fresh random seed. The optimal restart schedule depends on th...
Matthew J. Streeter, Daniel Golovin, Stephen F. Sm...
ECAI
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Towards Efficient Belief Update for Planning-Based Web Service Composition
At the "functional level", Semantic Web Services (SWS) are described akin to planning operators, with preconditions and effects relative to an ontology; the ontology prov...
Jörg Hoffmann
FMCAD
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Verifying an Arbiter Circuit
Abstract--This paper presents the verification of an asynchronous arbiter modeled at the circuit level with non-linear ordinary differential equations. We use Brockett's annul...
Chao Yan, Mark R. Greenstreet
FCS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Autonomous Scheduling
Abstract. Autonomous scheduling deals with the problem - how to enable agents to schedule a set of interdependent tasks in such a way that whatever schedule they choose for their t...
Chetan Yadati, Cees Witteveen, Yingqian Zhang, Men...
IPCO
2008
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The Stochastic Machine Replenishment Problem
We study the stochastic machine replenishment problem, which is a canonical special case of closed multiclass queuing systems in Markov decision theory. The problem models the sche...
Kamesh Munagala, Peng Shi