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ISAAC
2010
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Lower Bounds for Howard's Algorithm for Finding Minimum Mean-Cost Cycles
Howard's policy iteration algorithm is one of the most widely used algorithms for finding optimal policies for controlling Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). When applied to we...
Thomas Dueholm Hansen, Uri Zwick
CORR
2010
Springer
119views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Dynamic Policy Programming
In this paper, we consider the problem of planning and learning in the infinite-horizon discounted-reward Markov decision problems. We propose a novel iterative direct policysearc...
Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar, Hilbert J. Kappen
TC
1998
13 years 7 months ago
Cyclic Staggered Scheme: A Loop Allocation Policy for DOACROSS Loops
—Within the scope of the multithreaded dataflow, the problem of scheduling/allocation of DOACROSS loops has been discussed and it was shown that the so-called staggered allocatio...
Ali R. Hurson, Krishna M. Kavi, Joford T. Lim
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The impact of crawl policy on web search effectiveness
Crawl selection policy has a direct influence on Web search effectiveness, because a useful page that is not selected for crawling will also be absent from search results. Yet th...
Dennis Fetterly, Nick Craswell, Vishwa Vinay
3DIM
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Surface Registration by Matching Oriented Points
For registration of 3-D free-form surfaces we have developed a representation which requires no knowledge of the transformation between views. The representation comprises descrip...
Andrew Edie Johnson, Martial Hebert