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UAI
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Structured Reachability Analysis for Markov Decision Processes
Recent research in decision theoretic planning has focussedon making the solution of Markov decision processes (MDPs) more feasible. We develop a family of algorithms for structur...
Craig Boutilier, Ronen I. Brafman, Christopher W. ...
TOMACS
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
State-dependent importance sampling for a Jackson tandem network
This paper considers importance sampling as a tool for rare-event simulation. The focus is on estimating the probability of overflow in the downstream queue of a Jacksonian two-n...
Denis I. Miretskiy, Werner R. W. Scheinhardt, Mich...
GECCO
2006
Springer
156views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
14 years 9 days ago
Probabilistic modeling for continuous EDA with Boltzmann selection and Kullback-Leibeler divergence
This paper extends the Boltzmann Selection, a method in EDA with theoretical importance, from discrete domain to the continuous one. The difficulty of estimating the exact Boltzma...
Yunpeng Cai, Xiaomin Sun, Peifa Jia
IMC
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Poisson versus Periodic Path Probing (or, Does PASTA Matter?)
Abstract— The well-known PASTA (“Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages”) property states that, under very general conditions, the fraction of Poisson arrivals that observe an un...
Muhammad Mukarram Bin Tariq, Amogh Dhamdhere, Cons...
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Coloring unstructured wireless multi-hop networks
We present a randomized coloring algorithm for the unstructured radio network model, a model comprising autonomous nodes, asynchronous wake-up, no collision detection and an unkno...
Johannes Schneider, Roger Wattenhofer