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ATMOS
2008
103views Optimization» more  ATMOS 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
IP-based Techniques for Delay Management with Priority Decisions
Delay management is an important issue in the daily operations of any railway company. The task is to update the planned timetable to a disposition timetable in such a way that the...
Michael Schachtebeck, Anita Schöbel
AAAI
2000
15 years 4 months ago
Decision Making under Uncertainty: Operations Research Meets AI (Again)
Models for sequential decision making under uncertainty (e.g., Markov decision processes,or MDPs) have beenstudied in operations research for decades. The recent incorporation of ...
Craig Boutilier
CCE
2004
15 years 3 months ago
Continuous reformulations of discrete-continuous optimization problems
This paper treats the solution of nonlinear optimization problems involving discrete decision variables, also known as generalized disjunctive programming (GDP) or mixed-integer n...
Oliver Stein, Jan Oldenburg, Wolfgang Marquardt
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KDD
2010
ACM
282views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
15 years 7 months ago
Optimizing debt collections using constrained reinforcement learning
In this paper, we propose and develop a novel approach to the problem of optimally managing the tax, and more generally debt, collections processes at financial institutions. Our...
Naoki Abe, Prem Melville, Cezar Pendus, Chandan K....
CORR
1999
Springer
61views Education» more  CORR 1999»
15 years 2 months ago
Language Identification With Confidence Limits
A statistical classification algorithm and its application to language identification from noisy input are described. The main innovation is to compute confidence limits on the cl...
David Elworthy