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WSC
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Global likelihood maximization is an important aspect of many statistical analyses. Often the likelihood function is highly multi-extremal. This presents a significant challenge t...
CORR
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
The cross-entropy method (CE) developed by R. Rubinstein is an elegant practical principle for simulating rare events. The method approximates the probability of the rare event by...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
We present a learning framework for Markovian decision processes that is based on optimization in the policy space. Instead of using relatively slow gradient-based optimization al...
ANOR
2005
13 years 8 months ago
2005
This paper addresses the problem of loading a finite capacity, stochastic (random) and dynamic multi-project system. The system is controlled by keeping a constant number of projec...
ANOR
2005
13 years 8 months ago
2005
An alternate formulation of the classical vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands (VRPSD) is considered. We propose a new heuristic method to solve the problem. The algori...