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ICDCS
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
Towards Optimal Capacity Segmentation with Hybrid Cloud Pricing
—Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes — the su...
Wei Wang, Baochun Li, Ben Liang
CVPR
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
RALF: A reinforced active learning formulation for object class recognition
Active learning aims to reduce the amount of labels required for classification. The main difficulty is to find a good trade-off between exploration and exploitation of the lab...
Sandra Ebert, Mario Fritz, Bernt Schiele
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
Delay optimal multichannel opportunistic access
Abstract—The problem of minimizing queueing delay of opportunistic access of multiple continuous time Markov channels is considered. A new access policy based on myopic sensing a...
Shiyao Chen, Lang Tong, Qing Zhao
CSL
2012
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Reinforcement learning for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems
Reinforcement techniques have been successfully used to maximise the expected cumulative reward of statistical dialogue systems. Typically, reinforcement learning is used to estim...
Filip Jurcícek, Blaise Thomson, Steve Young
CORR
2012
Springer
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12 years 8 months ago
An Incremental Sampling-based Algorithm for Stochastic Optimal Control
Abstract— In this paper, we consider a class of continuoustime, continuous-space stochastic optimal control problems. Building upon recent advances in Markov chain approximation ...
Vu Anh Huynh, Sertac Karaman, Emilio Frazzoli
CLIMA
2011
13 years 7 days ago
Verifying Team Formation Protocols with Probabilistic Model Checking
Multi-agent systems are an increasingly important software paradigm and in many of its applications agents cooperate to achieve a particular goal. This requires the design of effi...
Taolue Chen, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, David Parker, A...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
A high-throughput routing metric for reliable multicast in multi-rate wireless mesh networks
Abstract—We propose a routing metric for enabling highthroughput reliable multicast in multi-rate wireless mesh networks. This new multicast routing metric, called expected multi...
Xin Zhao, Jun Guo, Chun Tung Chou, Archan Misra, S...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
A dynamic relay selection scheme for mobile users in wireless relay networks
—Cooperative communication has attracted dramatic attention in the last few years due to its advantage in mitigating channel fading. Despite much effort that has been made in the...
Yifan Li, Ping Wang, Dusit Niyato, Weihua Zhuang
AIED
2011
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Faster Teaching by POMDP Planning
Both human and automated tutors must infer what a student knows and plan future actions to maximize learning. Though substantial research has been done on tracking and modeling stu...
Anna N. Rafferty, Emma Brunskill, Thomas L. Griffi...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Reinforcement learning for energy-efficient wireless transmission
We consider the problem of energy-efficient point-to-point transmission of delay-sensitive data (e.g. multimedia data) over a fading channel. We propose a rigorous and unified fra...
Nicholas Mastronarde, Mihaela van der Schaar