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CONCUR
1998
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Algebraic Techniques for Timed Systems
Performance evaluation is a central issue in the design of complex real-time systems. In this work, we propose an extension of socalled "Max-Plus" algebraic techniques to...
Albert Benveniste, Claude Jard, Stephane Gaubert
CORR
2008
Springer
208views Education» more  CORR 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Equilibria, Fixed Points, and Complexity Classes
Many models from a variety of areas involve the computation of an equilibrium or fixed point of some kind. Examples include Nash equilibria in games; market equilibria; computing o...
Mihalis Yannakakis
ICRA
2002
IEEE
104views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
15 years 9 months ago
Characterization of a 2-D Laser Scanner for Mobile Robot Obstacle Negotiation
This paper presents a characterization study of the Sick LMS 200 laser scanner. A number of parameters, such as operation time, data transfer rate, target surface properties, as w...
Cang Ye, Johann Borenstein
COLT
2000
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Estimation and Approximation Bounds for Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning
We model reinforcement learning as the problem of learning to control a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (  ¢¡¤£¦¥§  ), and focus on gradient ascent approache...
Peter L. Bartlett, Jonathan Baxter
ITCC
2003
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
A New Quality of Service Metric for Hard/Soft Real-Time Applications
Real-time applications often have mixed hard and soft deadlines, can be preempted subject to the cost of context switching or the restart of computation, and have various data dep...
Shaoxiong Hua, Gang Qu