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AAAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Automated Online Mechanism Design and Prophet Inequalities
Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stopping theory — particularly secretary problems — in the design of approximately optimal on...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Tu...
JAIR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Optimal and Approximate Q-value Functions for Decentralized POMDPs
Decision-theoretic planning is a popular approach to sequential decision making problems, because it treats uncertainty in sensing and acting in a principled way. In single-agent ...
Frans A. Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Nikos A. ...
MOR
2007
149views more  MOR 2007»
13 years 6 months ago
LP Rounding Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Network Design
Real-world networks often need to be designed under uncertainty, with only partial information and predictions of demand available at the outset of the design process. The field ...
Anupam Gupta, R. Ravi, Amitabh Sinha
GECCO
2006
Springer
191views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Automating the drug scheduling with different toxicity clearance in cancer chemotherapy via evolutionary computation
The toxicity of an anticancer drug is cleared from the body by different processes, including saturable metabolic and nonsaturable renal-excretion pathways. According to the princ...
Yong Liang, Kwong-Sak Leung, Tony Shu Kam Mok
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu