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ESA
2006
Springer
136views Algorithms» more  ESA 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
Approximation in Preemptive Stochastic Online Scheduling
Abstract. We present a first constant performance guarantee for preemptive stochastic scheduling to minimize the sum of weighted completion times. For scheduling jobs with release ...
Nicole Megow, Tjark Vredeveld
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
137views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
16 years 18 days ago
An exact almost optimal algorithm for target set selection in social networks
The Target Set Selection problem proposed by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos, gives a nice clean combinatorial formulation for many problems arising in economy, sociology, and medicin...
Oren Ben-Zwi, Danny Hermelin, Daniel Lokshtanov, I...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
16 years 16 days ago
A point-based POMDP planner for target tracking
— Target tracking has two variants that are often studied independently with different approaches: target searching requires a robot to find a target initially not visible, and ...
David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee, Nan Rong
NIPS
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Theoretical Analysis of Heuristic Search Methods for Online POMDPs
Planning in partially observable environments remains a challenging problem, despite significant recent advances in offline approximation techniques. A few online methods have a...
Stéphane Ross, Joelle Pineau, Brahim Chaib-...
ICDCS
2010
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Stochastic Steepest-Descent Optimization of Multiple-Objective Mobile Sensor Coverage
—We propose a steepest descent method to compute optimal control parameters for balancing between multiple performance objectives in stateless stochastic scheduling, wherein the ...
Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, Nung Kwan Yip, Na...