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ICML
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
Many applications require optimizing an unknown, noisy function that is expensive to evaluate. We formalize this task as a multiarmed bandit problem, where the payoff function is ...
ICDCN
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
Given a set of robots with arbitrary initial location and no agreement on a global coordinate system, convergence requires that all robots asymptotically approach the exact same, ...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
Spectral methods have been widely used in a broad range of application fields. One important object involved in such methods is the Laplace-Beltrami operator of a manifold. Indeed...
CDC
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract-- The problem of finding the eigenvector corresponding to the largest eigenvalue of a stochastic matrix has numerous applications in ranking search results, multi-agent co...
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
— We present an ant model that solves a discrete foraging problem. We describe simulations and provide a complete convergence analysis: we show that the ant population computes t...