We study how to find plans that maximize the expected total utility for a given MDP, a planning objective that is important for decision making in high-stakes domains. The optimal...
The Grid promise is starting to materialize today: largescale multi-site infrastructures have grown to assist the work of scientists from all around the world. This tremendous gro...
Abstract Irregularities are widespread in large databases and often lead to erroneous conclusions with respect to data mining and statistical analysis. For example, considerable bi...
Siu-Tong Au, Rong Duan, Siamak G. Hesar, Wei Jiang
Abstract. We consider the class of applications that manage time series (TS) and propose a data model and a query language that let these applications manipulate TS data sets at a ...
The problem attempted in this paper is to select a sample from a large set where the sample is required to have a particular average property. The problem can be expressed as an o...