Continuous time Bayesian networks (CTBN) describe structured stochastic processes with finitely many states that evolve over continuous time. A CTBN is a directed (possibly cycli...
This paper studies the optimal resource allocation in time-reservation systems. Customers arrive at a service facility and receive service in two steps; in the first step informa...
Ran Yang, Sandjai Bhulai, Rob van der Mei, Frank J...
Abstract. Scheduling the execution of multiple concurrent tasks on shared resources such as CPUs and network links is essential to ensuring the reliable operation of many autonomic...
Terry Tidwell, Robert Glaubius, Christopher D. Gil...
Most adaptive delivery mechanisms for streaming multimedia content do not explicitly consider user-perceived quality when making adaptation decisions. We show that an optimal adap...
The development of intelligent assistants has largely benefited from the adoption of decision-theoretic (DT) approaches that enable an agent to reason and account for the uncertai...
Bowen Hui, Sean Gustafson, Pourang Irani, Craig Bo...