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HICSS
2008
IEEE
153views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Fault-Tolerant k-Fold Pivot Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Selecting a small set of nodes called pivots, from all the nodes in a network and maintaining the routing infrastructure to and among each other can reduce routing overhead and ex...
Doina Bein
ESA
2003
Springer
189views Algorithms» more  ESA 2003»
15 years 2 months ago
On the Complexity of Approximating TSP with Neighborhoods and Related Problems
We prove that various geometric covering problems, related to the Travelling Salesman Problem cannot be efficiently approximated to within any constant factor unless P = NP. This ...
Shmuel Safra, Oded Schwartz
ECML
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Transfer Learning in Reinforcement Learning Problems Through Partial Policy Recycling
In this paper we investigate the relation between transfer learning in reinforcement learning with function approximation and supervised learning with concept drift. We present a n...
Jan Ramon, Kurt Driessens, Tom Croonenborghs
CGF
2006
125views more  CGF 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Translational Covering of Closed Planar Cubic B-Spline Curves
Spline curves are useful in a variety of geometric modeling and graphics applications and covering problems abound in practical settings. This work defines a class of covering dec...
Cristina Neacsu, Karen Daniels
SODA
2007
ACM
145views Algorithms» more  SODA 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Aggregation of partial rankings, p-ratings and top-m lists
We study the problem of aggregating partial rankings. This problem is motivated by applications such as meta-searching and information retrieval, search engine spam fighting, e-c...
Nir Ailon