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SIAMCO
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Reachability and Minimal Times for State Constrained Nonlinear Problems without Any Controllability Assumption
We consider a target problem for a nonlinear system under state constraints. We give a new continuous level-set approach for characterizing the optimal times and the backward-reach...
Olivier Bokanowski, Nicolas Forcadel, Hasnaa Zidan...
ICML
2000
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Reinforcement Learning in POMDP's via Direct Gradient Ascent
This paper discusses theoretical and experimental aspects of gradient-based approaches to the direct optimization of policy performance in controlled ??? ?s. We introduce ??? ?, a...
Jonathan Baxter, Peter L. Bartlett
SIAMSC
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Multigrid Algorithms for Inverse Problems with Linear Parabolic PDE Constraints
Abstract. We present a multigrid algorithm for the solution of distributed parameter inverse problems constrained by variable-coefficient linear parabolic partial differential equa...
Santi S. Adavani, George Biros
TON
2010
197views more  TON 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Constrained relay node placement in wireless sensor networks: formulation and approximations
—One approach to prolong the lifetime of a wireless sensor network (WSN) is to deploy some relay nodes to communicate with the sensor nodes, other relay nodes, and the base stati...
Satyajayant Misra, Seung Don Hong, Guoliang Xue, J...
DASFAA
1997
IEEE
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14 years 6 days ago
Client-Server Optimization for Multimedia Document Exchange
The success of the World Wide Web is boosting the development of multimedia database systems and their integration into the internet. For the documents stored and exchanged in the...
Gerhard Köstler, Wolfgang L. J. Kowarschick, ...