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NIPS
2008
15 years 6 months ago
2008
We study convergence properties of empirical minimization of a stochastic strongly convex objective, where the stochastic component is linear. We show that the value attained by t...
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CORR
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
2007
Springer
There is a growing body of work on sorting and selection in models other than the unit-cost comparison model. This work treats a natural stochastic variant of the problem where the...
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ISSE
2010
15 years 3 months ago
2010
“Faster, Better, Cheaper” (FBC) was a systems development methodology used by NASA in the 1990s. While usually a deprecated practice, we find that, with certain caveats, it is...
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TRANSCI
2010
14 years 11 months ago
2010
We consider the Courier Delivery Problem, a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem with time windows in which customers appear probabilistically and their service times are uncert...
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SIAMCO
2011
14 years 7 months ago
2011
Abstract. We prove a weak version of the dynamic programming principle for standard stochastic control problems and mixed control-stopping problems, which avoids the technical di...