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IDEAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Consider a network of unreliable links, each of which comes with a certain price and reliability. Given a fixed budget, which links should be bought in order to maximize the syste...
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Global likelihood maximization is an important aspect of many statistical analyses. Often the likelihood function is highly multi-extremal. This presents a significant challenge t...
AAAI
2010
13 years 1 months ago
2010
Some real-world problems are partially decomposable, in that they can be decomposed into a set of coupled subproblems, that are each relatively easy to solve. However, when these ...
ANOR
2005
13 years 4 months ago
2005
An alternate formulation of the classical vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands (VRPSD) is considered. We propose a new heuristic method to solve the problem. The algori...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
We present a learning framework for Markovian decision processes that is based on optimization in the policy space. Instead of using relatively slow gradient-based optimization al...