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ESA
2009
Springer
146views Algorithms» more  ESA 2009»
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Kernel Bounds for Disjoint Cycles and Disjoint Paths
In this paper, we give evidence for the problems Disjoint Cycles and Disjoint Paths that they cannot be preprocessed in polynomial time such that resulting instances always have a ...
Hans L. Bodlaender, Stéphan Thomassé...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
114views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
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Policy teaching through reward function learning
Policy teaching considers a Markov Decision Process setting in which an interested party aims to influence an agent’s decisions by providing limited incentives. In this paper, ...
Haoqi Zhang, David C. Parkes, Yiling Chen
RTSS
2007
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Optimal Discrete Rate Adaptation for Distributed Real-Time Systems
Many distributed real-time systems face the challenge of dynamically maximizing system utility and meeting stringent resource constraints in response to fluctuations in system wo...
Yingming Chen, Chenyang Lu, Xenofon D. Koutsoukos
GECCO
2007
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
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A building-block royal road where crossover is provably essential
One of the most controversial yet enduring hypotheses about what genetic algorithms (GAs) are good for concerns the idea that GAs process building-blocks. More specifically, it ha...
Richard A. Watson, Thomas Jansen
WABI
2007
Springer
139views Bioinformatics» more  WABI 2007»
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Computability of Models for Sequence Assembly
Graph-theoretic models have come to the forefront as some of the most powerful and practical methods for sequence assembly. Simultaneously, the computational hardness of the underl...
Paul Medvedev, Konstantinos Georgiou, Gene Myers, ...