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ISAAC
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Howard's policy iteration algorithm is one of the most widely used algorithms for finding optimal policies for controlling Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). When applied to we...
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AIPS
2006
15 years 5 months ago
2006
This paper presents three techniques for using an iterated local search algorithm to improve the performance of a state-of-the-art branch and bound algorithm for job shop scheduli...
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COLT
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
The problem of ranking, in which the goal is to learn a real-valued ranking function that induces a ranking or ordering over an instance space, has recently gained attention in mac...
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EOR
2008
15 years 4 months ago
2008
This paper is a study of the car sequencing problem, when feature spacing constraints are soft and colors of vehicles are taken into account. Both pseudo-polynomial algorithms and ...
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COMPGEOM
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Following recent work of Clarkson, we translate the coreset framework to the problems of finding the point closest to the origin inside a polytope, finding the shortest distance...