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SAGA
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Bounds for Multistage Stochastic Programs Using Supervised Learning Strategies
We propose a generic method for obtaining quickly good upper bounds on the minimal value of a multistage stochastic program. The method is based on the simulation of a feasible dec...
Boris Defourny, Damien Ernst, Louis Wehenkel
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
Risk-averse auction agents
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
Yaxin Liu, Richard Goodwin, Sven Koenig
GECCO
2007
Springer
183views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Evolving distributed agents for managing air traffic
Air traffic management offers an intriguing real world challenge to designing large scale distributed systems using evolutionary computation. The ability to evolve effective air t...
Adrian K. Agogino, Kagan Tumer
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
176views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Sharing work in keyword search over databases
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Marie Jacob, Zachary G. Ives
GECCO
2008
Springer
107views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
The influence of scaling and assortativity on takeover times in scale-free topologies
In evolving systems, the topological characteristics of population structure have a pronounced impact on the rate of spread of advantageous alleles, and therefore affect selective...
Joshua L. Payne, Margaret J. Eppstein