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WINE
2007
Springer
124views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Stochastic Models for Budget Optimization in Search-Based Advertising
Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users’ search queries via an auction. Advertisers have to solve a complex optimization problem of how to place bids o...
S. Muthukrishnan, Martin Pál, Zoya Svitkina
CDC
2008
IEEE
137views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
An approximate dynamic programming approach to probabilistic reachability for stochastic hybrid systems
— This paper addresses the computational overhead involved in probabilistic reachability computations for a general class of controlled stochastic hybrid systems. An approximate ...
Alessandro Abate, Maria Prandini, John Lygeros, Sh...
ICTAI
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Stochastic Offline Programming
We propose a framework which we call stochastic offline programming (SOP). The idea is to embed the development of combinatorial algorithms in an off-line learning environment whi...
Yuri Malitsky, Meinolf Sellmann
CCE
2006
13 years 7 months ago
An efficient algorithm for large scale stochastic nonlinear programming problems
The class of stochastic nonlinear programming (SNLP) problems is important in optimization due to the presence of nonlinearity and uncertainty in many applications, including thos...
Y. Shastri, Urmila M. Diwekar
UAI
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Bayesian Learning in Undirected Graphical Models: Approximate MCMC Algorithms
Bayesian learning in undirected graphical models--computing posterior distributions over parameters and predictive quantities-is exceptionally difficult. We conjecture that for ge...
Iain Murray, Zoubin Ghahramani