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FPL
2008
Springer
153views Hardware» more  FPL 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
FPGA acceleration of quasi-Monte Carlo in finance
Today, quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are widely used in finance to price derivative securities. The QMC approach is popular because for many types of derivatives it yields an es...
Nathan A. Woods, Tom VanCourt
JAIR
2006
157views more  JAIR 2006»
13 years 5 months ago
Decision-Theoretic Planning with non-Markovian Rewards
A decision process in which rewards depend on history rather than merely on the current state is called a decision process with non-Markovian rewards (NMRDP). In decisiontheoretic...
Sylvie Thiébaux, Charles Gretton, John K. S...
AIPS
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Action Elimination and Plan Neighborhood Graph Search: Two Algorithms for Plan Improvement
Compared to optimal planners, satisficing planners can solve much harder problems but may produce overly costly and long plans. Plan quality for satisficing planners has become in...
Hootan Nakhost, Martin Müller 0003
STOC
2005
ACM
138views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
A new strategy for querying priced information
This paper focuses on competitive function evaluation in the context of computing with priced information. A function f is given together with a cost cx for each variable x of f. ...
Ferdinando Cicalese, Eduardo Sany Laber
ICRA
2006
IEEE
99views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
MRSAM: a Quadratically Competitive Multi-robot Online Navigation Algorithm
— We explore an online problem where a group of robots has to find a target whose position is unknown in an unknown planar environment whose geometry is acquired by the robots d...
Shahar Sarid, Amir Shapiro, Yoav Gabriely