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CP
2006
Springer
14 years 21 days ago
Mini-bucket Elimination with Bucket Propagation
Many important combinatorial optimization problems can be expressed as constraint satisfaction problems with soft constraints. When problems are too difficult to be solved exactly,...
Emma Rollon, Javier Larrosa
IJRR
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Planning High-quality Paths and Corridors Amidst Obstacles
The motion-planning problem, involving the computation of a collision-free path for a moving entity amidst obstacles, is a central problem in fields like Robotics and Game Design....
Ron Wein, Jur P. van den Berg, Dan Halperin
DAM
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
The Scheduling of Maintenance Service
We study a discrete problem of scheduling activities of several types under the constraint that at most a single activity can be scheduled to any one period. Applications of such ...
Shoshana Anily, Celia A. Glass, Refael Hassin
MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Self-monitoring for sensor networks
Local monitoring is an effective mechanism for the security of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Existing schemes assume the existence of sufficient number of active nodes to carry...
Dezun Dong, Yunhao Liu, Xiangke Liao
NIPS
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Variance Reduction Techniques for Gradient Estimates in Reinforcement Learning
Policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning avoid some of the undesirable properties of the value function approaches, such as policy degradation (Baxter and Bartlett, 2001...
Evan Greensmith, Peter L. Bartlett, Jonathan Baxte...