Selecting views to materialize is one of the most important decisions in designing a data warehouse. In this paper, we present a framework for analyzing the issues in selecting vi...
We investigate an approach for simultaneously committing to multiple activities, each modeled as a temporally extended action in a semi-Markov decision process (SMDP). For each ac...
Khashayar Rohanimanesh, Robert Platt Jr., Sridhar ...
Emergence is a concept that is not easy to grasp, since it contradicts our idea of central control and planning. In this work, we use a swarm of robots as a tangible tool to visua...
Collaborative optimization problems can often be modeled as a linear program whose objective function and constraints combine data from several parties. However, important applicat...
The Swath Segment Selection Problem (SSSP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem arising in the context of planning and scheduling satellite operations. It was defined ...
Roberto Cordone, Federico Gandellini, Giovanni Rig...