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UAI
1997
14 years 11 months ago
Correlated Action Effects in Decision Theoretic Regression
Much recent research in decision theoretic planning has adopted Markov decision processes (MDPs) as the model of choice, and has attempted to make their solution more tractable by...
Craig Boutilier
SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
Nearly insensitive bounds on SMART scheduling
We define the class of SMART scheduling policies. These are policies that bias towards jobs with small remaining service times, jobs with small original sizes, or both, with the ...
Adam Wierman, Mor Harchol-Balter, Takayuki Osogami
JAIR
2007
111views more  JAIR 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Proactive Algorithms for Job Shop Scheduling with Probabilistic Durations
Most classical scheduling formulations assume a fixed and known duration for each activity. In this paper, we weaken this assumption, requiring instead that each duration can be ...
J. Christopher Beck, Nic Wilson
ECOOP
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Generational Real-Time Garbage Collection
Abstract. While real-time garbage collection is now available in production virtual machines, the lack of generational capability means applications with high allocation rates are ...
Daniel Frampton, David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, Davi...
EUROCRYPT
2003
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
New Bounds in Secret-Key Agreement: The Gap between Formation and Secrecy Extraction
Perfectly secret message transmission can be realized with only partially secret and weakly correlated information shared by the parties as soon as this information allows for the ...
Renato Renner, Stefan Wolf