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MP
2006
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15 years 2 months ago
Worst-case distribution analysis of stochastic programs
We show that for even quasi-concave objective functions the worst-case distribution, with respect to a family of unimodal distributions, of a stochastic programming problem is a u...
Alexander Shapiro
WSC
2004
15 years 3 months ago
Simulation-Based Optimization Using Simulated Annealing With Confidence Interval
This paper develops a variant of Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm for solving discrete stochastic optimization problems where the objective function is stochastic and can be eva...
Talal M. Alkhamis, Mohamed A. Ahmed
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JAIR
2010
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15 years 26 days ago
Kalman Temporal Differences
This paper deals with value (and Q-) function approximation in deterministic Markovian decision processes (MDPs). A general statistical framework based on the Kalman filtering pa...
Matthieu Geist, Olivier Pietquin
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HPCN
1997
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Boolean Function Manipulation on a Parallel System Using BDDs
This paper describes a distributed algorithm for Boolean function manipulation. The algorithm is based on Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs), which are one of the most commonly used ...
F. Bianchi, Fulvio Corno, Maurizio Rebaudengo, Mat...
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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15 years 7 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to Buffer Insertion
This work presents a formal probabilistic approach for solving optimization problems in design automation. Prediction accuracy is very low especially at high levels of design flo...
Vishal Khandelwal, Azadeh Davoodi, Akash Nanavati,...