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AAAI
2000
15 years 7 months ago
Making Rational Decisions Using Adaptive Utility Elicitation
Rational decision making requires full knowledge of the utility function of the person affected by the decisions. However, in many cases, the task of acquiring such knowledge is n...
Urszula Chajewska, Daphne Koller, Ronald Parr
ICGA
1997
134views Optimization» more  ICGA 1997»
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Local Search Genetic Algorithm for Optimization of Highly Reliable Communications Networks
This paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA) with specialized encoding, initialization and local search genetic operators to optimize communication network topologies. This NPhard...
Berna Dengiz, Fulya Altiparmak, Alice E. Smith
ICDE
2010
IEEE
221views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
A generic auto-provisioning framework for cloud databases
— We discuss the problem of resource provisioning for database management systems operating on top of an Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) cloud. To solve this problem, we descr...
Jennie Rogers, Olga Papaemmanouil, Ugur Çet...
ANOR
2007
108views more  ANOR 2007»
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Towards a practical engineering tool for rostering
The profitability and morale of many organizations (such as factories, hospitals and airlines) are affected by their ability to schedule their personnel properly. Sophisticated an...
Edward P. K. Tsang, John A. Ford, Patrick Mills, R...
ASC
2006
15 years 6 months ago
Speeding up the learning of equivalence classes of bayesian network structures
For some time, learning Bayesian networks has been both feasible and useful in many problems domains. Recently research has been done on learning equivalence classes of Bayesian n...
Rónán Daly, Qiang Shen, J. Stuart Ai...