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ISIPTA
2003
IEEE
140views Mathematics» more  ISIPTA 2003»
15 years 11 months ago
A Second-Order Uncertainty Model of Independent Random Variables: An Example of the Stress-Strength Reliability
A second-order hierarchical uncertainty model of a system of independent random variables is studied in the paper. It is shown that the complex nonlinear optimization problem for ...
Lev V. Utkin
EUSFLAT
2009
173views Fuzzy Logic» more  EUSFLAT 2009»
15 years 3 months ago
Application of Zadeh's Impossibility Principle to Approximate Explanation
Abstract: We consider application of Zadeh's impossibility principle and extended logic FLe to approximate scientific explanation from the standpoint of the philosophy of scie...
Vesa A. Niskanen
SIAMSC
2008
148views more  SIAMSC 2008»
15 years 5 months ago
Multilevel Adaptive Aggregation for Markov Chains, with Application to Web Ranking
A multilevel adaptive aggregation method for calculating the stationary probability vector of an irreducible stochastic matrix is described. The method is a special case of the ada...
Hans De Sterck, Thomas A. Manteuffel, Stephen F. M...
SIAMSC
2010
116views more  SIAMSC 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Recursively Accelerated Multilevel Aggregation for Markov Chains
A recursive acceleration method is proposed for multiplicative multilevel aggregation algorithms that calculate the stationary probability vector of large, sparse, and irreducible ...
Hans De Sterck, K. Miller, G. Sanders, M. Winlaw
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Incremental plan aggregation for generating policies in MDPs
Despite the recent advances in planning with MDPs, the problem of generating good policies is still hard. This paper describes a way to generate policies in MDPs by (1) determiniz...
Florent Teichteil-Königsbuch, Ugur Kuter, Gui...