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IOR
2011
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13 years 3 months ago
Optimal Inventory Policies when Purchase Price and Demand Are Stochastic
In this paper we consider the problem of a firm that faces a stochastic (Poisson) demand and must replenish from a market in which prices fluctuate, such as a commodity market. ...
Peter Berling, Victor Martínez-de-Alb&eacut...
ICEBE
2005
IEEE
165views Business» more  ICEBE 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed Policy Specification and Enforcement in Service-Oriented Business Systems
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) and Web Services (WS) provide a flexible computing platform for electronic business and commerce. Introducing policy-based computing to service-or...
Wei-Tek Tsai, Xinxin Liu, Yinong Chen
HICSS
2007
IEEE
126views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Does Visualization Affect Perceptions of Ethically Complex Policy Decisions: An Experimental Study
Visualization as a communication medium is an important factor when considering how individuals are influenced in a decision about a complex policy issue. Age, race and gender may...
Deirdre Hahn, Rick Shangraw, Mark Keith, David H. ...
ATMN
1993
13 years 10 months ago
Local Allocation of End-to-End Quality-of-Service in High-Speed Networks
Quality-of-service (QOS) requirements for applications in high-speed networks are typically specied on an end-to-end basis. Mapping this end-to-end requirement to nodal requiremen...
Ramesh Nagarajan, James F. Kurose, Donald F. Towsl...
ESANN
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Applying the Episodic Natural Actor-Critic Architecture to Motor Primitive Learning
In this paper, we investigate motor primitive learning with the Natural Actor-Critic approach. The Natural Actor-Critic consists out of actor updates which are achieved using natur...
Jan Peters, Stefan Schaal