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WINE
2007
Springer
124views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
Stochastic Models for Budget Optimization in Search-Based Advertising
Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users’ search queries via an auction. Advertisers have to solve a complex optimization problem of how to place bids o...
S. Muthukrishnan, Martin Pál, Zoya Svitkina
CEC
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A parallel surrogate-assisted multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for computationally expensive optimization problems
Abstract— This paper presents a new efficient multiobjective evolutionary algorithm for solving computationallyintensive optimization problems. To support a high degree of parall...
Anna Syberfeldt, Henrik Grimm, Amos Ng, Robert Ivo...
ICML
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Robot trajectory optimization using approximate inference
The general stochastic optimal control (SOC) problem in robotics scenarios is often too complex to be solved exactly and in near real time. A classical approximate solution is to ...
Marc Toussaint
ESA
2006
Springer
136views Algorithms» more  ESA 2006»
15 years 1 months ago
Approximation in Preemptive Stochastic Online Scheduling
Abstract. We present a first constant performance guarantee for preemptive stochastic scheduling to minimize the sum of weighted completion times. For scheduling jobs with release ...
Nicole Megow, Tjark Vredeveld
IJCAI
2007
14 years 11 months ago
A Hybridized Planner for Stochastic Domains
Markov Decision Processes are a powerful framework for planning under uncertainty, but current algorithms have difficulties scaling to large problems. We present a novel probabil...
Mausam, Piergiorgio Bertoli, Daniel S. Weld