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NECO
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Bayesian Model Assessment and Comparison Using Cross-Validation Predictive Densities
In this work, we discuss practical methods for the assessment, comparison, and selection of complex hierarchical Bayesian models. A natural way to assess the goodness of the model...
Aki Vehtari, Jouko Lampinen
AIPS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic Planning with Nonlinear Utility Functions
Researchers often express probabilistic planning problems as Markov decision process models and then maximize the expected total reward. However, it is often rational to maximize ...
Yaxin Liu, Sven Koenig
CP
2003
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Scheduling in the Face of Uncertain Resource Consumption and Utility
We discuss the problem of scheduling tasks that consume uncertain amounts of a resource with known capacity and where the tasks have uncertain utility. In these circumstances, we w...
Jeremy Frank, Richard Dearden
FSS
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
A possibilistic approach to selecting portfolios with highest utility score
The mean-variance methodology for the portfolio selection problem, originally proposed by Markowitz, has been one of the most important research fields in modern finance. In this ...
Christer Carlsson, Robert Fullér, Pé...
SIGMETRICS
1999
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Availability and Utility of Idle Memory in Workstation Clusters
In this paper, we examine the availability and utility of idle memory in workstation clusters. We attempt to answer the following questions. First, how much of the total memory in...
Anurag Acharya, Sanjeev Setia