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UAI
1998
15 years 8 months ago
1998
This paper presents two new approaches to decomposing and solving large Markov decision problems (MDPs), a partial decoupling method and a complete decoupling method. In these app...
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GECCO
2008
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper studies the issue of space coordinate change in genetic algorithms, based on two methods: convex quadratic approximations, and principal component analysis. In both met...
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PE
2000
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
2000
Springer
Stochastic process algebras have been proposed as compositional specification formalisms for performance models. In this paper, we describe a tool which aims at realising all bene...
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INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
2010
IEEE
—It is well known that max-weight policies based on a queue backlog index can be used to stabilize stochastic networks, and that similar stability results hold if a delay index i...
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AGI
2011
14 years 10 months ago
2011
Abstract. Perfectly rational decision-makers maximize expected utility, but crucially ignore the resource costs incurred when determining optimal actions. Here we employ an axiomat...