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COMPCON
1995
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
IEEE 1394: A Ubiquitous Bus
A link is an unreliable FIFO channel. As we mentioned earlier, it is an abstraction of a point-topoint wire or of a simple broadcast LAN. It is unreliable because noise or other ph...
Gary Hoffman, Daniel Moore
AIPS
2010
15 years 9 months ago
When Policies Can Be Trusted: Analyzing a Criteria to Identify Optimal Policies in MDPs with Unknown Model Parameters
Computing a good policy in stochastic uncertain environments with unknown dynamics and reward model parameters is a challenging task. In a number of domains, ranging from space ro...
Emma Brunskill
SODA
2008
ACM
109views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
Auctions for structured procurement
This paper considers a general setting for structured procurement and the problem a buyer faces in designing a procurement mechanism to maximize profit. This brings together two a...
Matthew Cary, Abraham D. Flaxman, Jason D. Hartlin...
IPCO
2004
110views Optimization» more  IPCO 2004»
15 years 8 months ago
Scheduling an Industrial Production Facility
Managing an industrial production facility requires carefully allocating limited resources, and gives rise to large, potentially complicated scheduling problems. In this paper we c...
Eyjolfur Asgeirsson, Jonathan W. Berry, Cynthia A....
JCSS
2008
138views more  JCSS 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Reducing mechanism design to algorithm design via machine learning
We use techniques from sample-complexity in machine learning to reduce problems of incentive-compatible mechanism design to standard algorithmic questions, for a broad class of re...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Jason D. Hartlin...