FPGAs are one of the essential components in platform-based embedded systems. Such systems are customized and applied only to a limited set of applications. Also some applications...
Automatic physical database design tools rely on "what-if" interfaces to the query optimizer to estimate the execution time of the training query workload under differen...
We consider the problem of finding the best arm in a stochastic multi-armed bandit game. The regret of a forecaster is here defined by the gap between the mean reward of the optim...
In most decisional models based on pairwise comparison between alternatives, the reciprocity of the individual preference representations expresses a natural assumption of rationa...
This a summary of the author's PhD thesis supervised by Leo Liberti, Philippe Baptiste and Daniel Krob and defended on 18 June 2009 at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. ...