We address the problem of computing an optimal value function for Markov decision processes. Since finding this function quickly and accurately requires substantial computation ef...
We formulate and study a new variant of the k-armed bandit problem, motivated by e-commerce applications. In our model, arms have (stochastic) lifetime after which they expire. In...
Deepayan Chakrabarti, Ravi Kumar, Filip Radlinski,...
: Whenever transformation of data is used to bridge the gap of different data formats, and a query is given in the destination format, query reformulation can speed up the transfor...
We consider the problem of rate allocation among multiple simultaneous video streams sharing multiple heterogeneous access networks. We develop and evaluate an analytical framework...
Xiaoqing Zhu, Piyush Agrawal, Jatinder Pal Singh, ...
Abstract--We investigate the relay selection problem in a network where users are able to collaborate with each other; decode and forward the messages of each other along with thei...