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NIPS
2004
15 years 3 months ago
VDCBPI: an Approximate Scalable Algorithm for Large POMDPs
Existing algorithms for discrete partially observable Markov decision processes can at best solve problems of a few thousand states due to two important sources of intractability:...
Pascal Poupart, Craig Boutilier
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SODA
1997
ACM
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A Practical Approximation Algorithm for the LMS Line Estimator
The problem of fitting a straight line to a finite collection of points in the plane is an important problem in statistical estimation. Robust estimators are widely used because...
David M. Mount, Nathan S. Netanyahu, Kathleen Roma...
EDBT
2010
ACM
110views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
The hardness and approximation algorithms for l-diversity
The existing solutions to privacy preserving publication can be classified into the theoretical and heuristic categories. The former guarantees provably low information loss, whe...
Xiaokui Xiao, Ke Yi, Yufei Tao
IAT
2006
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
An Approximate Algorithm for Resource Allocation Using Combinatorial Auctions
Combinatorial Auctions (CAs), where users bid on combination of items, have emerged as a useful tool for resource allocation in distributed systems. However, two main difficulties...
Viswanath Avasarala, Himanshu Polavarapu, Tracy Mu...
ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A swarm based approximated algorithm to the extended generalized assignment problem (E-GAP)
This paper addresses distributed task allocation in complex scenarios modeled using the distributed constraint optimization problem (DCOP) formalism. We propose and evaluate a nov...
Paulo Roberto Ferreira Jr., Felipe S. Boffo, Ana L...