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ANOR
2008
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Application of multi-dimensional procurement auction in single-period inventory models
Procurement is one of the major activities in the Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II), which is closely coupled with inventory management. Any improvement in this area will h...
Pooya Farahvash, Tayfur Altiok
CORR
2010
Springer
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Dynamic Policy Programming
In this paper, we consider the problem of planning and learning in the infinite-horizon discounted-reward Markov decision problems. We propose a novel iterative direct policysearc...
Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar, Hilbert J. Kappen
CSL
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Evaluation of a hierarchical reinforcement learning spoken dialogue system
We describe an evaluation of spoken dialogue strategies designed using hierarchical reinforcement learning agents. The dialogue strategies were learnt in a simulated environment a...
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver ...
EOR
2008
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Augmenting the lot sizing order quantity when demand is probabilistic
In this paper we consider a single item, discrete time, lot sizing situation where demand is random and its parameters (e.g., mean and standard deviation) can change with time. Fo...
I. Nyoman Pujawan, Edward A. Silver
CONCURRENCY
2006
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An adaptive parallel query processing middleware for the Grid
vices provide an important abstract layer on top of heterogeneous components (hardware and software) that take part into a grid environment. In this scenario, applications, like sc...
Vinícius F. V. da Silva, Márcio L. D...