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UAI
1990
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Ideal reformulation of belief networks
The intelligent reformulation or restructuring of a belief network can greatly increase the efficiency of inference. However, time expended for reformulation is not available for ...
Jack S. Breese, Eric Horvitz
AAAI
2010
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Myopic Policies for Budgeted Optimization with Constrained Experiments
Motivated by a real-world problem, we study a novel budgeted optimization problem where the goal is to optimize an unknown function f(x) given a budget. In our setting, it is not ...
Javad Azimi, Xiaoli Fern, Alan Fern, Elizabeth Bur...
EOR
2010
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Online scheduling policies for multiclass call centers with impatient customers
We consider a call center with two classes of impatient customers: premium and regular classes. Modeling our call center as a multiclass GI/GI/s + M queue, we focus on developing ...
Oualid Jouini, Auke Pot, Ger Koole, Yves Dallery
ENTCS
2007
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A Rewriting Logic Framework for Soft Constraints
Soft constraints extend classical constraints to deal with non-functional requirements, overconstrained problems and preferences. Bistarelli, Montanari and Rossi have developed a ...
Martin Wirsing, Grit Denker, Carolyn L. Talcott, A...
JSAC
2006
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Incentives for large peer-to-peer systems
We consider problems of provisioning an excludable public good amongst n potential members of a peer-to-peer system who are able to communicate information about their private pre...
Costas Courcoubetis, Richard R. Weber