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MP
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
We consider derivative free methods based on sampling approaches for nonlinear optimization problems where derivatives of the objective function are not available and cannot be dir...
CDC
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
We consider the classical finite-state discounted Markovian decision problem, and we introduce a new policy iteration-like algorithm for finding the optimal state costs or Q-facto...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
With increasing process variation, binning has become an important technique to improve the values of fabricated chips, especially in high performance microprocessors where transpa...
CGF
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Signed distance functions (SDF) to explicit or implicit surface representations are intensively used in various computer graphics and visualization algorithms. Among others, they ...
ESA
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Springer
The focus is on black-box optimization of a function f : RN R given as a black box, i. e. an oracle for f-evaluations. This is commonly called direct search, and in fact, most meth...