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CDC
2008
IEEE
117views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Event-based optimization for dispatching policies in material handling systems of general assembly lines
—A material handling (MH) system of a general assembly line dispatching parts from inventory to working buffers could be complicated and costly to operate. Generally it is extrem...
Yanjia Zhao, Qianchuan Zhao, Qing-Shan Jia, Xiaoho...
CORR
2007
Springer
94views Education» more  CORR 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Universal Quantile Estimation with Feedback in the Communication-Constrained Setting
Abstract— We consider the following problem of decentralized statistical inference: given i.i.d. samples from an unknown distribution, estimate an arbitrary quantile subject to l...
Ram Rajagopal, Martin J. Wainwright
CAISE
1999
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
CPAM, A Protocol for Software Composition
Software composition is critical for building large-scale applications. In this paper, we consider the composition of components that are methods offered by heterogeneous, autonomo...
Laurence Melloul, Dorothea Beringer, Neal Sample, ...
ERSA
2009
149views Hardware» more  ERSA 2009»
13 years 5 months ago
Hardware-Optimized Ziggurat Algorithm for High-Speed Gaussian Random Number Generators
Many scientific and engineering applications, which are increasingly being ported from software to reconfigurable platforms, require Gaussian-distributed random numbers. Thus, the...
Hassan Edrees, Brian Cheung, McCullen Sandora, Dav...
NIPS
2001
13 years 8 months ago
Variance Reduction Techniques for Gradient Estimates in Reinforcement Learning
Policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning avoid some of the undesirable properties of the value function approaches, such as policy degradation (Baxter and Bartlett, 2001...
Evan Greensmith, Peter L. Bartlett, Jonathan Baxte...