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WSC
2008
15 years 7 months ago
Simulation-based, optimized scheduling of limited bar-benders over multiple building sites
In the construction industry, a specialist subcontractor manages a taskforce of single-skilled laborers to work on multiple construction sites, aiming to minimize the total cost a...
Hoi-Ching Lam, Ming Lu
IJCAI
2007
15 years 6 months ago
MB-DPOP: A New Memory-Bounded Algorithm for Distributed Optimization
In distributed combinatorial optimization problems, dynamic programming algorithms like DPOP ([Petcu and Faltings, 2005]) require only a linear number of messages, thus generating...
Adrian Petcu, Boi Faltings
NIPS
2008
15 years 6 months ago
Estimating Robust Query Models with Convex Optimization
Query expansion is a long-studied approach for improving retrieval effectiveness by enhancing the user's original query with additional related words. Current algorithms for ...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson
DICTA
2003
15 years 6 months ago
Globally Optimal Surfaces by Continuous Maximal Flows
Abstract. In this paper we solve the problem of computing exact continuous optimal curves and surfaces for image segmentation and 3D reconstruction, using a maximal flow approach ...
Ben Appleton, Hugues Talbot
IJCAI
2003
15 years 6 months ago
Approximating Optimal Policies for Agents with Limited Execution Resources
An agent with limited consumable execution resources needs policies that attempt to achieve good performance while respecting these limitations. Otherwise, an agent (such as a pla...
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee