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SIGMOD
1996
ACM
120views Database» more  SIGMOD 1996»
15 years 3 months ago
Query Execution Techniques for Caching Expensive Methods
Object-Relational and Object-Oriented DBMSs allow users to invoke time-consuming ("expensive") methods in their queries. When queries containing these expensive methods a...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Jeffrey F. Naughton
NIPS
2001
15 years 16 days ago
Variance Reduction Techniques for Gradient Estimates in Reinforcement Learning
Policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning avoid some of the undesirable properties of the value function approaches, such as policy degradation (Baxter and Bartlett, 2001...
Evan Greensmith, Peter L. Bartlett, Jonathan Baxte...
TSE
2010
132views more  TSE 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
ASCENT: An Algorithmic Technique for Designing Hardware and Software in Tandem
Search-based software engineering is an emerging paradigm that uses automated search algorithms to help designers iteratively find solutions to complicated design problems. For exa...
Jules White, Brian Doughtery, Douglas C. Schmidt
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
124views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2004»
15 years 8 months ago
FLUTE: fast lookup table based wirelength estimation technique
Wirelength estimation is an important tool to guide the design optimization process in early design stages. In this paper, we present a novel wirelength estimation technique calle...
C. Chu
IFIP12
2009
14 years 8 months ago
Use of AI Techniques for Residential Fire Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
: Early residential fire detection is important for prompt extinguishing and reducing damages and life losses. To detect fire, one or a combination of sensors and a detection algor...
Majid Bahrepour, Nirvana Meratnia, Paul J. M. Havi...