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CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper presents improved approximation algorithms for the problem of multiprocessor scheduling under uncertainty (SUU), in which the execution of each job may fail probabilist...
UAI
2004
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Bayesian learning in undirected graphical models--computing posterior distributions over parameters and predictive quantities-is exceptionally difficult. We conjecture that for ge...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper proposes a new approach to describe the salient contours in cluttered scenes. No need to do the preprocessing, such as edge detection, we directly use a set of random s...
KESAMSTA
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model to study the interaction of bidder and seller agents in sequential automated auctions. We consider a designated “special bidder”...
NIPS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
2003
We study an approach to policy selection for large relational Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). We consider a variant of approximate policy iteration (API) that replaces the usual...