This paper examines the problem of finding an optimal policy for a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) when the model is not known or is only poorly specified. W...
Abstract. We study three comparison-based problems related to multisets in the cache-oblivious model: Duplicate elimination, multisorting and finding the most frequent element (th...
Arash Farzan, Paolo Ferragina, Gianni Franceschini...
Although the interest in nature-inspired optimization of dynamic problems has been growing constantly over the past decade, very little has been done to analyze and characterize a...
A challenge in hybrid evolutionary algorithms is to define efficient strategies to cover all search space, applying local search only in actually promising search areas. This pape...
Database support for multidimensional arrays is an area of growing importance; a variety of highvolume applications such as spatio-temporal data management and statistics/OLAP bec...
Peter Baumann, Andreas Dehmel, Paula Furtado, Rola...