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AAAI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Compact, Convex Upper Bound Iteration for Approximate POMDP Planning
Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are an intuitive and general way to model sequential decision making problems under uncertainty. Unfortunately, even approx...
Tao Wang, Pascal Poupart, Michael H. Bowling, Dale...
GECCO
2008
Springer
179views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Emergent architecture in self organized swarm systems for military applications
Many sectors of the military are interested in Self-Organized (SO) systems because of their flexibility, versatility and economics. The military is researching and employing auto...
Dustin J. Nowak, Gary B. Lamont, Gilbert L. Peters...
BMCBI
2005
89views more  BMCBI 2005»
13 years 7 months ago
An empirical analysis of training protocols for probabilistic gene finders
Background: Generalized hidden Markov models (GHMMs) appear to be approaching acceptance as a de facto standard for state-of-the-art ab initio gene finding, as evidenced by the re...
William H. Majoros, Steven Salzberg
ISM
2008
IEEE
110views Multimedia» more  ISM 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
A Hardware-Independent Fast Logarithm Approximation with Adjustable Accuracy
Many multimedia applications rely on the computation of logarithms, for example, when estimating log-likelihoods for Gaussian Mixture Models. Knowing of the demand to compute loga...
Oriol Vinyals, Gerald Friedland
CLUSTER
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Minimizing the Network Overhead of Checkpointing in Cycle-harvesting Cluster Environments
Cycle-harvesting systems such as Condor have been developed to make desktop machines in a local area (which are often similar to clusters in hardware configuration) available as ...
Daniel Nurmi, John Brevik, Richard Wolski