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PRICAI
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A POMDP Approximation Algorithm That Anticipates the Need to Observe
This paper introduces the even-odd POMDP, an approximation to POMDPs in which the world is assumed to be fully observable every other time step. The even-odd POMDP can be converte...
Valentina Bayer Zubek, Thomas G. Dietterich
WOA
2007
13 years 8 months ago
A Swarm Intelligence Method Applied to Manufacturing Scheduling
—In this paper we present a multi-agent search technique to face the NP-hard single machine total weighted tardiness scheduling problem in presence of sequence-dependent setup ti...
Davide Anghinolfi, Antonio Boccalatte, Alberto Gro...
ENC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Saving Evaluations in Differential Evolution for Constrained Optimization
Generally, evolutionary algorithms require a large number of evaluations of the objective function in order to obtain a good solution. This paper presents a simple approach to sav...
Efrén Mezura-Montes, Carlos A. Coello Coell...
FCT
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The Maximum Resource Bin Packing Problem
Usually, for bin packing problems, we try to minimize the number of bins used or in the case of the dual bin packing problem, maximize the number or total size of accepted items. ...
Joan Boyar, Leah Epstein, Lene M. Favrholdt, Jens ...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Optimizing P2P Streaming Throughput Under Peer Churning
Abstract— High-throughput P2P streaming relies on peer selection, the strategy a peer uses to select other peer(s) as its parent(s) of streaming. Although this problem has been t...
Yi Cui, Liang Dai, Yuan Xue