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NIPS
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Risk Sensitive Reinforcement Learning
In this paper, we consider Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with error states. Error states are those states entering which is undesirable or dangerous. We define the risk with re...
Ralph Neuneier, Oliver Mihatsch
IOPADS
1997
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13 years 8 months ago
Competitive Parallel Disk Prefetching and Buffer Management
We provide a competitive analysis framework for online prefetching and buffer management algorithms in parallel I/O systems, using a read-once model of block references. This has ...
Rakesh D. Barve, Mahesh Kallahalla, Peter J. Varma...
PE
2011
Springer
167views Optimization» more  PE 2011»
13 years 2 months ago
Passage-time computation and aggregation strategies for large semi-Markov processes
High-level semi-Markov modelling paradigms such as semi-Markov stochastic Petri nets and process algebras are used to capture realistic performance models of computer and communic...
Marcel C. Guenther, Nicholas J. Dingle, Jeremy T. ...
SIGMETRICS
2011
ACM
208views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Structure-aware sampling on data streams
The massive data streams observed in network monitoring, data processing and scientific studies are typically too large to store. For many applications over such data, we must ob...
Edith Cohen, Graham Cormode, Nick G. Duffield
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
141views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
14 years 22 days ago
Automated mechanism design for a self-interested designer
Often, an outcome must be chosen on the basis of the preferences reported by a group of agents. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely to m...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm