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AIPS
2009
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Automatic Derivation of Memoryless Policies and Finite-State Controllers Using Classical Planners
Finite-state and memoryless controllers are simple action selection mechanisms widely used in domains such as videogames and mobile robotics. Memoryless controllers stand for func...
Blai Bonet, Héctor Palacios, Hector Geffner
AUTOMATICA
2006
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Simulation-based optimization of process control policies for inventory management in supply chains
A simulation-based optimization framework involving simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) is presented as a means for optimally specifying parameters of intern...
Jay D. Schwartz, Wenlin Wang, Daniel E. Rivera
MCS
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Public policy, innovation and total factor productivity: An application to Taiwan's manufacturing industry
: This paper examines the impact of being an innovator on firm productivity in Taiwan. Using a panel of 48794 firms observed over the 1997-2003 period, and distributed across 23 in...
Chia-Lin Chang, Stéphane Robin
BROADNETS
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Energy-efficient transmission for multimedia streams in last-hop wireless internet
Multimedia applications have unique characteristics that can be leveraged to design energy-efficient loss recovery mechanisms. Given their loss tolerance and strict timing requirem...
Albert F. Harris III, Robin Snader, Robin Kravets
AIIDE
2009
13 years 12 months ago
Evaluating the Authorial Leverage of Drama Management
A drama manager (DM) monitors an interactive experience, such as a computer game, and intervenes to shape the global experience so that it satisfies the author's expressive g...
Sherol Chen, Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas