Manually tuning tens to hundreds of configuration parameters in a complex software system like a database or an application server is an arduous task. Recent work has looked into ...
On-line analytical processing (OLAP) requires e cient processing of complex decision support queries over very large databases. It is well accepted that pre-computed data cubes ca...
David Wai-Lok Cheung, Bo Zhou, Ben Kao, Hongjun Lu...
It is widely accepted that the use of more compact representations than lookup tables is crucial to scaling reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms to real-world problems. Unfortun...
Satinder P. Singh, Tommi Jaakkola, Michael I. Jord...
Planning in large, partially observable domains is challenging, especially when a long-horizon lookahead is necessary to obtain a good policy. Traditional POMDP planners that plan...
Scatter search is an evolutionary method that has been successfully applied to hard optimization problems. The fundamental concepts and principles of the method were first propose...