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NIPS
2001
14 years 1 months ago
The Emergence of Multiple Movement Units in the Presence of Noise and Feedback Delay
Tangential hand velocity profiles of rapid human arm movements often appear as sequences of several bell-shaped acceleration-deceleration phases called submovements or movement un...
Michael Kositsky, Andrew G. Barto
NIPS
2008
14 years 1 months ago
MDPs with Non-Deterministic Policies
Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) have been extensively studied and used in the context of planning and decision-making, and many methods exist to find the optimal policy for probl...
Mahdi Milani Fard, Joelle Pineau
ESANN
2007
14 years 1 months ago
The Recurrent Control Neural Network
This paper presents our Recurrent Control Neural Network (RCNN), which is a model-based approach for a data-efficient modelling and control of reinforcement learning problems in di...
Anton Maximilian Schäfer, Steffen Udluft, Han...
INFOCOM
1991
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Queueing Performance with Impatient Customers
customer which exceeds its deadline will either leave the queue without service or stay in the queue to get unsucWe consider the problem of scheduling impatient CUS- cessful servic...
Zheng-Xue Zhao, Shivendra S. Panwar, Donald F. Tow...
ESA
2006
Springer
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Approximation in Preemptive Stochastic Online Scheduling
Abstract. We present a first constant performance guarantee for preemptive stochastic scheduling to minimize the sum of weighted completion times. For scheduling jobs with release ...
Nicole Megow, Tjark Vredeveld
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Optimal Streaming of Layered Video
Abstract—This paper presents a model and theory for streaming layered video. We model the bandwidth available to the streaming application as a stochastic process whose statistic...
Despina Saparilla, Keith W. Ross
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Constructing optimal policies for agents with constrained architectures
Optimal behavior is a very desirable property of autonomous agents and, as such, has received much attention over the years. However, making optimal decisions and executing optima...
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee
INFOCOM
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Power Constrained and Delay Optimal Policies for Scheduling Transmission over a Fading Channel
ACT We consider an optimal power and rate scheduling problem for a single user transmitting to a base station on a fading wireless link with the objective of minimizing the mean de...
Munish Goyal, Anurag Kumar, Vinod Sharma
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Learning of Transmission Control Policies for MIMO Fading Channels under Delay Constraint
— This paper addresses learning based adaptive resource allocation for wireless MIMO channels with Markovian fading. The problem is posed as Constrained Markov Decision Process w...
Dejan V. Djonin, Vikram Krishnamurthy
ICN
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Heuristic Approach of Optimal Code Allocation in High Speed Downlink Packet Access Networks
— In this paper, we use the Markov Decision Process (MDP) technique to find the optimal code allocation policy in High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) networks. A discrete ...
Hussein Al-Zubaidy, Jerome Talim, Ioannis Lambadar...