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AIMSA
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Machine Learning for Spoken Dialogue Management: An Experiment with Speech-Based Database Querying
Although speech and language processing techniques achieved a relative maturity during the last decade, designing a spoken dialogue system is still a tailoring task because of the ...
Olivier Pietquin
NOMS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Autonomic QoS optimization of real-time internet audio using loss prediction and stochastic control
— Quality of Internet audio is highly sensitive to packet loss caused by congestion in the links. Packet loss for audio is normally rectified by adding redundancy using Forward ...
Lopa Roychoudhuri, Ehab S. Al-Shaer
NIPS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Distributed Optimization in Adaptive Networks
We develop a protocol for optimizing dynamic behavior of a network of simple electronic components, such as a sensor network, an ad hoc network of mobile devices, or a network of ...
Ciamac Cyrus Moallemi, Benjamin Van Roy
EENERGY
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Optimal sleep patterns for serving delay-tolerant jobs
Sleeping is an important method to reduce energy consumption in many information and communication systems. In this paper we focus on a typical server under dynamic load, where en...
Ioannis Kamitsos, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Hongseok K...
TSMC
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Cross-Entropy Optimization of Control Policies With Adaptive Basis Functions
—This paper introduces an algorithm for direct search of control policies in continuous-state discrete-action Markov decision processes. The algorithm looks for the best closed-l...
Lucian Busoniu, Damien Ernst, Bart De Schutter, Ro...