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CDC
2008
IEEE
104views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
A structured multiarmed bandit problem and the greedy policy
—We consider a multiarmed bandit problem where the expected reward of each arm is a linear function of an unknown scalar with a prior distribution. The objective is to choose a s...
Adam J. Mersereau, Paat Rusmevichientong, John N. ...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
On the Value of Multiple Read/Write Streams for Approximating Frequency Moments
We consider the read/write streams model, an extension of the standard data stream model in which an algorithm can create and manipulate multiple read/write streams in addition to...
Paul Beame, Dang-Trinh Huynh-Ngoc
DNA
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Staged Self-assembly: Nanomanufacture of Arbitrary Shapes with O (1) Glues
We introduce staged self-assembly of Wang tiles, where tiles can be added dynamically in sequence and where intermediate constructions can be stored for later mixing. This model a...
Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Sándor ...
SOFSEM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Competitive Maintenance of Minimum Spanning Trees in Dynamic Graphs
Abstract. We consider the problem of maintaining a minimum spanning tree within a graph with dynamically changing edge weights. An online algorithm is confronted with an input sequ...
Miroslaw Dynia, Miroslaw Korzeniowski, Jaroslaw Ku...
RANDOM
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On-Line Bin-Stretching
We are given a sequence of items that can be packed into m unit size bins. In the classical bin packing problem we x the size of the bins and try to pack the items in the minimum ...
Yossi Azar, Oded Regev