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IOR
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Optimal Inventory Policies when Purchase Price and Demand Are Stochastic
In this paper we consider the problem of a firm that faces a stochastic (Poisson) demand and must replenish from a market in which prices fluctuate, such as a commodity market. ...
Peter Berling, Victor Martínez-de-Alb&eacut...
MSOM
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Facility Location with Stochastic Demand and Constraints on Waiting Time
We analyze the problem of optimal location of a set of facilities in the presence of stochastic demand and congestion. Customers travel to the closest facility to obtain service; ...
Opher Baron, Oded Berman, Dmitry Krass
HYBRID
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Robust, Optimal Predictive Control of Jump Markov Linear Systems Using Particles
Hybrid discrete-continuous models, such as Jump Markov Linear Systems, are convenient tools for representing many real-world systems; in the case of fault detection, discrete jumps...
Lars Blackmore, Askar Bektassov, Masahiro Ono, Bri...
GECCO
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Continuous lunches are free!
This paper investigates extensions of No Free Lunch (NFL) theorems to countably infinite and uncountable infinite domains. The original NFL due to Wolpert and Macready states th...
Anne Auger, Olivier Teytaud
JMLR
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Policy Gradient in Continuous Time
Policy search is a method for approximately solving an optimal control problem by performing a parametric optimization search in a given class of parameterized policies. In order ...
Rémi Munos