Many applications require optimizing an unknown, noisy function that is expensive to evaluate. We formalize this task as a multiarmed bandit problem, where the payoff function is ...
Niranjan Srinivas, Andreas Krause, Sham Kakade, Ma...
Predicting the performance of a system before it is built is a highly desirable goal, but one that is rarely achieved. This paper examines performance problems and issues within in...
Abstract. The process industries (chemicals, food, oil, ...) are characterized by - continuous or batch -- processes of material transformation. The design of such processes, and t...
It is well known that the brain (especially the cortex) is structurally separable into two hemispheres. Many neuropsychological studies show that the process of ambiguity resoluti...
Orna Peleg, Zohar Eviatar, Hananel Hazan, Larry M....
Abstract--The increasing availability of multi-core and multiprocessor architectures provides new opportunities for improving the performance of many computer simulations. Markov C...
Jonathan M. R. Byrd, Stephen A. Jarvis, Abhir H. B...