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CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Mean field for Markov Decision Processes: from Discrete to Continuous Optimization
We study the convergence of Markov Decision Processes made of a large number of objects to optimization problems on ordinary differential equations (ODE). We show that the optimal...
Nicolas Gast, Bruno Gaujal, Jean-Yves Le Boudec
CORR
2004
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robots
An optimization problem that naturally arises in the study of swarm robotics is the Freeze-Tag Problem (FTP) of how to awaken a set of "asleep" robots, by having an awak...
Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender, Sándor ...
ANOR
2010
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15 years 2 months ago
Online stochastic optimization under time constraints
This paper considers online stochastic optimization problems where uncertainties are characterized by a distribution that can be sampled and where time constraints severely limit t...
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Russell Bent, Eli Upfal
DCOSS
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Distributed local broadcasting algorithms in the physical interference model
—Given a set of sensor nodes V where each node wants to broadcast a message to all its neighbors that are within a certain broadcasting range, the local broadcasting problem is t...
Dongxiao Yu, Yuexuan Wang, Qiang-Sheng Hua, Franci...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
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16 years 4 months ago
Fast range-summable random variables for efficient aggregate estimation
Exact computation for aggregate queries usually requires large amounts of memory ? constrained in data-streaming ? or communication ? constrained in distributed computation ? and ...
Florin Rusu, Alin Dobra