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JAIR
2008
15 years 6 months ago
2008
Multi-agent planning in stochastic environments can be framed formally as a decentralized Markov decision problem. Many real-life distributed problems that arise in manufacturing,...
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PODS
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
2009
ACM
We consider the the problem of tracking heavy hitters and quantiles in the distributed streaming model. The heavy hitters and quantiles are two important statistics for characteri...
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ALT
2002
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
2002
Springer
We describe a new boosting algorithm that is the first such algorithm to be both smooth and adaptive. These two features make possible performance improvements for many learning ...
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AIPS
2004
15 years 8 months ago
2004
We present new results on the problem of finding an enclosing rectangle of minimum area that will contain a given a set of rectangles. Many simple scheduling tasks can be modelled...
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ISPD
2004
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
2004
ACM
VLSI placement tools usually work in two steps: First, the cells that have to be placed are roughly spread out over the chip area ignoring disjointness (global placement). Then, i...