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ICAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Hardness of Approximation and Greedy Algorithms for the Adaptation Problem in Virtual Environments
— Over the past decade, wide-area distributed computing has emerged as a powerful computing paradigm. Virtual machines greatly simplify wide-area distributed computing ing the ab...
Ananth I. Sundararaj, Manan Sanghi, John R. Lange,...
ICC
2008
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
A Polynomial-Time Approximation Algorithm for Weighted Sum-Rate Maximization in UWB Networks
— Scheduling in an ad hoc wireless network suffers from the non-convexity of the cost function, caused by the interference between communication links. In previous optimization t...
Gyouhwan Kim, Qiao Li, Rohit Negi
CGVR
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Real-time Computation of Area Shadows - A Geometrical Algorithm
The computation of soft shadows created by area light sources is a well-known problem in computer graphics. Due to the complexity of the problem, soft shadows commonly are generat...
Michael Boehl, Wolfgang Stürzlinger
COMPGEOM
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Maximum thick paths in static and dynamic environments
We consider the problem of finding a maximum number of disjoint paths for unit disks moving amidst static or dynamic obstacles. For the static case we give efficient exact algorit...
Esther M. Arkin, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Valentin P...
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Model-based function approximation in reinforcement learning
Reinforcement learning promises a generic method for adapting agents to arbitrary tasks in arbitrary stochastic environments, but applying it to new real-world problems remains di...
Nicholas K. Jong, Peter Stone