Abstract. The optimization and design of two different types of photonic devices - a Fibre Bragg Grating and a Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibre is presented in light of multi...
Steven Manos, Leon Poladian, Peter J. Bentley, Mar...
We investigate the effects of precision on the efficiency of various local search algorithms on 1-D unimodal functions. We present a (1 + 1)-EA with adaptive step size which fin...
Martin Dietzfelbinger, Jonathan E. Rowe, Ingo Wege...
Recent research in decision theoretic planning has focussedon making the solution of Markov decision processes (MDPs) more feasible. We develop a family of algorithms for structur...
Craig Boutilier, Ronen I. Brafman, Christopher W. ...
This paper considers the design of an optimal joint source-channel coding system employing scalable wavelet-based source coders and unequal error protection for error-resilient tra...
Adrian Munteanu, Maryse R. Stoufs, Jan Cornelis, P...
Factored planning methods aim to exploit locality to efficiently solve large but "loosely coupled" planning problems by computing solutions locally and propagating limit...
Eric Fabre, Loig Jezequel, Patrik Haslum, Sylvie T...