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SIGMOD
2000
ACM
141views Database» more  SIGMOD 2000»
15 years 11 months ago
Counting, Enumerating, and Sampling of Execution Plans in a Cost-Based Query Optimizer
Testing an SQL database system by running large sets of deterministic or stochastic SQL statements is common practice in commercial database development. However, code defects oft...
Florian Waas, César A. Galindo-Legaria
GECCO
2010
Springer
174views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
15 years 10 months ago
Real-coded genetic algorithm benchmarked on noiseless black-box optimization testbed
Genetic algorithms—a class of stochastic population-based optimization techniques—have been widely realized as the effective tools to solve complicated optimization problems ...
Thanh-Do Tran, Gang-Gyoo Jin
IJCAI
2001
15 years 7 months ago
R-MAX - A General Polynomial Time Algorithm for Near-Optimal Reinforcement Learning
R-max is a very simple model-based reinforcement learning algorithm which can attain near-optimal average reward in polynomial time. In R-max, the agent always maintains a complet...
Ronen I. Brafman, Moshe Tennenholtz
AMC
2006
100views more  AMC 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Reliability evaluation of multi-component cold-standby redundant systems
A new methodology for the reliability evaluation of an l-dissimilar-unit non-repairable cold-standby redundant system is introduced in this paper. Each unit is composed of a numbe...
Amir Azaron, Hideki Katagiri, Kosuke Kato, Masatos...
PE
2006
Springer
130views Optimization» more  PE 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Analysis of resource transfers in peer-to-peer file sharing applications using fluid models
This paper proposes a stochastic fluid flow model to compute the transfer time distribution of resources in peer-to-peer file sharing applications. The amount of bytes transferred...
Rossano Gaeta, Marco Gribaudo, Daniele Manini, Mat...