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2004
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Boosted sampling: approximation algorithms for stochastic optimization
Several combinatorial optimization problems choose elements to minimize the total cost of constructing a feasible solution that satisfies requirements of clients. In the STEINER T...
Anupam Gupta, Martin Pál, R. Ravi, Amitabh ...
APPROX
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
What About Wednesday? Approximation Algorithms for Multistage Stochastic Optimization
The field of stochastic optimization studies decision making under uncertainty, when only probabilistic information about the future is available. Finding approximate solutions to...
Anupam Gupta, Martin Pál, R. Ravi, Amitabh ...
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Sampling-based Approximation Algorithms for Multi-stage Stochastic Optimization
Stochastic optimization problems provide a means to model uncertainty in the input data where the uncertainty is modeled by a probability distribution over the possible realizatio...
Chaitanya Swamy, David B. Shmoys
APPROX
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Sampling Bounds for Stochastic Optimization
A large class of stochastic optimization problems can be modeled as minimizing an objective function f that depends on a choice of a vector x ∈ X, as well as on a random external...
Moses Charikar, Chandra Chekuri, Martin Pál
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Efficient Polygonal Approximation of Digital Curves via Monte Carlo Optimization
A novel stochastic searching scheme based on the Monte Carlo optimization is presented for polygonal approximation (PA) problem. We propose to combine the split-and-merge based lo...
Xiuzhuang Zhou, Yao Lu