Dynamic programming provides a methodology to develop planners and controllers for nonlinear systems. However, general dynamic programming is computationally intractable. We have ...
1 The Decision Support Information Gathering System, Digs, uses influence diagrams to model user's decisions and to calculate the value of imperfect information for each avail...
— An autonomous robot system that is to act in a real-world environment is faced with the problem of having to deal with a high degree of both complexity as well as uncertainty. ...
When they encounter problems with a novel or infrequently performed task, experienced users often complete their work by referring to manuals and trying task-oriented exploration....
Traditionally, optimizers are “programmed” to optimize queries following a set of buildin procedures. However, optimizers should be robust to its changing environment to gener...