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GECCO
2008
Springer
170views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
Evolving prediction weights using evolution strategy
The evolution strategy is one of the strongest evolutionary algorithms for optimizing real-value vectors. In this paper, we study how to use it for the evolution of prediction wei...
Trung Hau Tran, Cédric Sanza, Yves Duthen
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APPROX
2009
Springer
138views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2009»
15 years 9 months ago
Submodular Maximization over Multiple Matroids via Generalized Exchange Properties
Submodular-function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important NP-hard problems including Max Cut in digraphs, graphs and hypergr...
Jon Lee, Maxim Sviridenko, Jan Vondrák
TOPLAS
2008
79views more  TOPLAS 2008»
15 years 29 days ago
Witnessing side effects
We present a new approach to the old problem of adding side effects to purely functional languages. Our idea is to extend the language with "witnesses," which is based o...
Tachio Terauchi, Alex Aiken
DISCO
1992
79views Hardware» more  DISCO 1992»
15 years 6 months ago
REDUCE Meets CAMAL
It is generally accepted that special purpose algebraic systems are more efficient than general purpose ones, but as machines get faster this does not matter. An experiment has be...
John Fitch
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AAAI
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Computationally Feasible Automated Mechanism Design: General Approach and Case Studies
In many multiagent settings, a decision must be made based on the preferences of multiple agents, and agents may lie about their preferences if this is to their benefit. In mechan...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer