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SODA
2010
ACM
190views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
One-Counter Markov Decision Processes
We study the computational complexity of some central analysis problems for One-Counter Markov Decision Processes (OC-MDPs), a class of finitely-presented, countable-state MDPs. O...
Tomas Brazdil, Vaclav Brozek, Kousha Etessami, Ant...
GECCO
2006
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Sporadic model building for efficiency enhancement of hierarchical BOA
This paper describes and analyzes sporadic model building, which can be used to enhance the efficiency of the hierarchical Bayesian optimization algorithm (hBOA) and other advance...
Martin Pelikan, Kumara Sastry, David E. Goldberg
CN
2007
168views more  CN 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
A MAC layer power management scheme for efficient energy delay tradeoff in a WLAN
— Energy efficient operation is of paramount importance for battery-powered wireless nodes. In an effort to conserve energy, standard protocols for WLANs have the provision for w...
Mahasweta Sarkar, Rene L. Cruz
CORR
2010
Springer
164views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Is submodularity testable?
: We initiate the study of property testing of submodularity on the boolean hypercube. Submodular functions come up in a variety of applications in combinatorial optimization. For ...
C. Seshadhri, Jan Vondrák
TECS
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Recovering from distributable thread failures in distributed real-time Java
We consider the problem of recovering from failures of distributable threads (“threads”) in distributed realtime systems that operate under run-time uncertainties including th...
Edward Curley, Binoy Ravindran, Jonathan Stephen A...