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...
— 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...
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...
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...
Bayesian learning in undirected graphical models--computing posterior distributions over parameters and predictive quantities-is exceptionally difficult. We conjecture that for ge...