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ICML
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Probabilistic inference for solving discrete and continuous state Markov Decision Processes
Inference in Markov Decision Processes has recently received interest as a means to infer goals of an observed action, policy recognition, and also as a tool to compute policies. ...
Marc Toussaint, Amos J. Storkey
COR
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
A continuous approach to considering uncertainty in facility design
This paper presents a formulation of the facilities block layout problem which explicitly considers uncertainty in material handling costs on a continuous scale by use of expected...
Bryan A. Norman, Alice E. Smith
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Delay-Based Network Utility Maximization
—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...
Michael J. Neely
EOR
2010
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15 years 6 months ago
Speeding up continuous GRASP
Continuous GRASP (C-GRASP) is a stochastic local search metaheuristic for finding cost-efficient solutions to continuous global optimization problems subject to box constraints (Hi...
Michael J. Hirsch, Panos M. Pardalos, Mauricio G. ...
GECCO
2007
Springer
210views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
16 years 16 days ago
An application of EDA and GA to dynamic pricing
E-commerce has transformed the way firms develop their pricing strategies, producing shift away from fixed pricing to dynamic pricing. In this paper, we use two different Estim...
Siddhartha Shakya, Fernando Oliveira, Gilbert Owus...