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WSC
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Speeding up call center simulation and optimization by Markov chain uniformization
Staffing and scheduling optimization in large multiskill call centers is time-consuming, mainly because it requires lengthy simulations to evaluate performance measures and their ...
Eric Buist, Wyean Chan, Pierre L'Ecuyer
ORI
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Markov chain applications in the slot machine industry
One of the important sectors within gambling is that of gaming machines. This industry used to favour approaches based on long-run simulations or complete enumerations of all poss...
Noelia Oses
NIPS
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Markov Chain Monte Carlo with People
Many formal models of cognition implicitly use subjective probability distributions to capture the assumptions of human learners. Most applications of these models determine these...
Adam Sanborn, Thomas L. Griffiths
AAAI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Bayesian Inference on Principal Component Analysis Using Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Based on the probabilistic reformulation of principal component analysis (PCA), we consider the problem of determining the number of principal components as a model selection prob...
Zhihua Zhang, Kap Luk Chan, James T. Kwok, Dit-Yan...
WSC
1997
13 years 10 months ago
A New Variance-Reduction Technique for Regenerative Simulations of Markov Chains
We propose a new estimator for some performance measures obtained from a regenerative simulation of a discrete-time Markov chain. Our new estimator is based on the idea of generat...
James M. Calvin, Marvin K. Nakayama