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COLT
2000
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2000
Springer
We model reinforcement learning as the problem of learning to control a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process ( ¢¡¤£¦¥§ ), and focus on gradient ascent approache...
COMPGEOM
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2009
ACM
We consider the problem of computing minimum geometric hitting sets in which, given a set of geometric objects and a set of points, the goal is to compute the smallest subset of p...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2008
IEEE
In this paper we consider the following maximum budgeted allocation (MBA) problem: Given a set of m indivisible items and n agents; each agent i willing to pay bij on item j and w...
IPCO
1998
13 years 10 months ago
1998
Abstract. A well studied and difficult class of scheduling problems concerns parallel machines and precedence constraints. In order to model more realistic situations, we consider ...
WAOA
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2007
Springer
For a connected graph G, let L(G) denote the maximum number of leaves in a spanning tree in G. The problem of computing L(G) is known to be NP-hard even for cubic graphs. We improv...