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2002
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Little Engines of Proof
The automated construction of mathematical proof is a basic activity in computing. Since the dawn of the field of automated reasoning, there have been two divergent schools of tho...
Natarajan Shankar
FLAIRS
2004
15 years 1 months ago
CSAA: A Distributed Ant Algorithm Framework for Constraint Satisfaction
In this paper the distributed Constraint Satisfaction Ant Algorithm (CSAA) framework is presented. It uses an ant-based system for the distributed solving of constraint satisfacti...
Koenraad Mertens, Tom Holvoet
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STOC
2007
ACM
83views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
16 years 2 days ago
Lattices that admit logarithmic worst-case to average-case connection factors
We demonstrate an average-case problem that is as hard as finding (n)-approximate shortest vectors in certain n-dimensional lattices in the worst case, where (n) = O( log n). The...
Chris Peikert, Alon Rosen
SODA
2008
ACM
109views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
15 years 1 months ago
Auctions for structured procurement
This paper considers a general setting for structured procurement and the problem a buyer faces in designing a procurement mechanism to maximize profit. This brings together two a...
Matthew Cary, Abraham D. Flaxman, Jason D. Hartlin...
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
SarsaLandmark: an algorithm for learning in POMDPs with landmarks
Reinforcement learning algorithms that use eligibility traces, such as Sarsa(λ), have been empirically shown to be effective in learning good estimated-state-based policies in pa...
Michael R. James, Satinder P. Singh