MDPs are an attractive formalization for planning, but realistic problems often have intractably large state spaces. When we only need a partial policy to get from a fixed start s...
H. Brendan McMahan, Maxim Likhachev, Geoffrey J. G...
This paper discusses theoretical and experimental aspects of gradient-based approaches to the direct optimization of policy performance in controlled ??? ?s. We introduce ??? ?, a...
—Autonomic Computing (AC) is an emerging paradigm aiming at simplifying the administration of complex computer systems. Efforts required to deploy and maintain complex systems ar...
Cornel Klein, Reiner N. Schmid, Christian Leuxner,...
Abstract—In this paper the Shannon capacity of generalizedgamma (GG) fading channels is studied, under different adaptive transmission techniques. The GG is a generic distributio...
Petros S. Bithas, P. Takis Mathiopoulos, Stavros A...
—This paper deals with the analytical evaluation of the average delay, the packet-loss rate (PLR) and the throughput of a multi-user (MU) wireless system that capitalizes on a cr...