In designing learning algorithms it seems quite reasonable to construct them in such a way that all data the algorithm already has obtained are correctly and completely reflected...
The multi-period newsvendor problem describes the dilemma of a newspaper salesman--how many paper should he purchase each day to resell, when he doesn't know the demand? We d...
We are exploring the differences between expert and less expert tutors with two goals: cognitive (what does tutoring tell us about learning) and applied (which features of tutorin...
Barbara Di Eugenio, Trina C. Kershaw, Xin Lu, Andr...
We introduce a new algorithm based on linear programming that approximates the differential value function of an average-cost Markov decision process via a linear combination of p...
We study, from the competitive analysis perspective, the trade off between communication cost and delay cost (or simply the sendor-wait dilemma) on a hierarchy (rooted tree). The p...