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AMAI
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
New Look-Ahead Schemes for Constraint Satisfaction
This paper presents new look-ahead schemes for backtracking search when solving constraint satisfaction problems. The look-ahead schemes compute a heuristic for value ordering and...
Kalev Kask, Rina Dechter, Vibhav Gogate
GECCO
2008
Springer
168views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Speed-up techniques for solving large-scale bTSP with the Two-Phase Pareto Local Search
We first present a method, called Two-Phase Pareto Local Search, to find a good approximation of the efficient set of the biobjective traveling salesman problem. In the first p...
Thibaut Lust
160
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STOC
2004
ACM
110views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
16 years 6 months ago
On sums of independent random variables with unbounded variance, and estimating the average degree in a graph
We prove the following inequality: for every positive integer n and every collection X1, . . . , Xn of nonnegative independent random variables that each has expectation 1, the pr...
Uriel Feige
COMPGEOM
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Low-dimensional embedding with extra information
A frequently arising problem in computational geometry is when a physical structure, such as an ad-hoc wireless sensor network or a protein backbone, can measure local information...
Mihai Badoiu, Erik D. Demaine, Mohammad Taghi Haji...
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Decentralized planning under uncertainty for teams of communicating agents
Decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes (DEC-POMDPs) form a general framework for planning for groups of cooperating agents that inhabit a stochastic and part...
Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Nikos A....