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EOR
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
Exact algorithms for procurement problems under a total quantity discount structure
In this paper, we study the procurement problem faced by a buyer who needs to purchase a variety of goods from suppliers applying a so-called total quantity discount policy. This ...
Dries R. Goossens, A. J. T. Maas, Frits C. R. Spie...
SIAMSC
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Multigrid Algorithms for Inverse Problems with Linear Parabolic PDE Constraints
Abstract. We present a multigrid algorithm for the solution of distributed parameter inverse problems constrained by variable-coefficient linear parabolic partial differential equa...
Santi S. Adavani, George Biros
CORR
2011
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Close the Gaps: A Learning-while-Doing Algorithm for a Class of Single-Product Revenue Management Problems
In this work, we consider a retailer selling a single product with limited on-hand inventory over a finite selling season. Customer demand arrives according to a Poisson process,...
Zizhuo Wang, Shiming Deng, Yinyu Ye
CORR
1998
Springer
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Training Reinforcement Neurocontrollers Using the Polytope Algorithm
A new training algorithm is presented for delayed reinforcement learning problems that does not assume the existence of a critic model and employs the polytope optimization algorit...
Aristidis Likas, Isaac E. Lagaris
WIAMIS
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Comparative evaluation of spatial context techniques for semantic image analysis
In this paper, two approaches to utilizing contextual information in semantic image analysis are presented and comparatively evaluated. Both approaches make use of spatial context...
Georgios Th. Papadopoulos, Carsten Saathoff, Marci...