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COLT
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Adapting to a Changing Environment: the Brownian Restless Bandits
In the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem there are k distributions associated with the rewards of playing each of k strategies (slot machine arms). The reward distributions are ini...
Aleksandrs Slivkins, Eli Upfal
AAAI
2006
15 years 8 months ago
A BDD-Based Polytime Algorithm for Cost-Bounded Interactive Configuration
Interactive configurators are decision support systems assisting users in selecting values for parameters that respect given constraints. The underlying knowledge can be convenien...
Tarik Hadzic, Henrik Reif Andersen
CVPR
2009
IEEE
16 years 11 months ago
Tracking of a Non-Rigid Object via Patch-based Dynamic Appearance Modeling and Adaptive Basin Hopping Monte Carlo Sampling
We propose a novel tracking algorithm for the target of which geometric appearance changes drastically over time. To track it, we present a local patch-based appearance model and p...
Junseok Kwon (Seoul National University), Kyoung M...
WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
WS-replication: a framework for highly available web services
Due to the rapid acceptance of web services and its fast spreading, a number of mission-critical systems will be deployed as web services in next years. The availability of those ...
Jorge Salas, Francisco Perez-Sorrosal, Marta Pati&...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Database research in computer games
This tutorial presents an overview of the data management issues faced by computer games today. While many games do not use databases directly, they still have to process large am...
Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Christoph Koch, B...