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NIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
We formulate and study a new variant of the k-armed bandit problem, motivated by e-commerce applications. In our model, arms have (stochastic) lifetime after which they expire. In...
PE
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper proposes a stochastic fluid flow model to compute the transfer time distribution of resources in peer-to-peer file sharing applications. The amount of bytes transferred...
AAAI
2004
13 years 9 months ago
2004
We describe an innovative solution to the problem of scheduling astronomy observations for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an airborne observatory. The probl...
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
2009
IEEE
— Consider multiple sensors that transmit data over analog erasure links to an estimation center. The sensors have access to distinct entries of the output vector of a linear and...
AOR
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
We show how a technique from signal processing known as zero-delay convolution can be used to develop more efficient dynamic programming algorithms for a broad class of stochastic...