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CDC
2010
IEEE
139views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Q-learning and enhanced policy iteration in discounted dynamic programming
We consider the classical finite-state discounted Markovian decision problem, and we introduce a new policy iteration-like algorithm for finding the optimal state costs or Q-facto...
Dimitri P. Bertsekas, Huizhen Yu
CORR
2006
Springer
95views Education» more  CORR 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Peer-to-Peer Communication Across Network Address Translators
Network Address Translation (NAT) causes well-known difficulties for peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, since the peers involved may not be reachable at any globally valid IP addre...
Bryan Ford, Pyda Srisuresh, Dan Kegel
IJCAI
1997
13 years 8 months ago
A Study of Causal Discovery With Weak Links and Small Samples
Weak causal relationships and small sample size pose two significant difficulties to the automatic discovery of causal models from observational data. This paper examines the infl...
Honghua Dai, Kevin B. Korb, Chris S. Wallace, Xind...
AICCSA
2005
IEEE
113views Hardware» more  AICCSA 2005»
13 years 9 months ago
Towards autonomic Web services
Autonomic Computing was introduced to reduce the complexity of managing computing systems; however, the heterogeneous nature existing in most computing systems introduces some dif...
Amir Zeid, Sherif A. Gurguis
ML
2008
ACM
156views Machine Learning» more  ML 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
On the connection between the phase transition of the covering test and the learning success rate in ILP
It is well-known that heuristic search in ILP is prone to plateau phenomena. An explanation can be given after the work of Giordana and Saitta: the ILP covering test is NP-complete...
Érick Alphonse, Aomar Osmani