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COR
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Buffer allocation in general single-server queueing networks
-- The optimal buffer allocation in queueing network systems is a difficult stochastic, non-linear, integer mathematical programming problem. Moreover, the objective function, the ...
Frederico R. B. Cruz, A. R. Duarte, Tom Van Woense...
AOR
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Speeding up Stochastic Dynamic Programming with Zero-Delay Convolution
We show how a technique from signal processing known as zero-delay convolution can be used to develop more efficient dynamic programming algorithms for a broad class of stochastic...
Brian C. Dean
GECCO
2008
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Coordinate change operators for genetic algorithms
This paper studies the issue of space coordinate change in genetic algorithms, based on two methods: convex quadratic approximations, and principal component analysis. In both met...
Elizabeth F. Wanner, Eduardo G. Carrano, Ricardo H...
IPCO
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Robust Combinatorial Optimization with Exponential Scenarios
Following the well-studied two-stage optimization framework for stochastic optimization [15, 18], we study approximation algorithms for robust two-stage optimization problems with ...
Uriel Feige, Kamal Jain, Mohammad Mahdian, Vahab S...
NIPS
2004
13 years 9 months ago
The Convergence of Contrastive Divergences
This paper analyses the Contrastive Divergence algorithm for learning statistical parameters. We relate the algorithm to the stochastic approximation literature. This enables us t...
Alan L. Yuille