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WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A simulation study of interventions to reduce appointment lead-time and patient no-show rate
A problem in health care is the lengthy waiting time for patients to receive an appointment. Long appointment delays cause patient dissatisfaction with the health care clinic and ...
Ronald E. Giachetti
IROS
2008
IEEE
203views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 5 months ago
Learning equivalent action choices from demonstration
Abstract— In their interactions with the world robots inevitably face equivalent action choices, situations in which multiple actions are equivalently applicable. In this paper, ...
Sonia Chernova, Manuela M. Veloso
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
132views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2005»
14 years 4 months ago
Battery optimization vs energy optimization: which to choose and when?
— Batteries are non-ideal energy sources – minimizing the energy consumption of a battery-powered system is not equivalent to maximizing its battery life. We propose an alterna...
Ravishankar Rao, Sarma B. K. Vrudhula
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
118views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
14 years 11 months ago
Proxy-Server Architectures for OLAP
Data warehouses have been successfully employed for assisting decision making by offering a global view of the enterprise data and providing mechanisms for On-Line Analytical proc...
Panos Kalnis, Dimitris Papadias
CDC
2009
IEEE
111views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
An optimal investment problem with randomly terminating income
Abstract— We investigate an optimal consumption and investment problem where we receive a certain fixed income stream that is terminated at a random time. It turns out that the ...
Michel H. Vellekoop, Mark Davis