Budgeted optimization with concurrent stochastic-duration experiments

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24: 25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2011, NIPS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Azimi, Javad ^a   Fern, Alan ^a   Fern, Xiaoli Z ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BUDGET CONTROL; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

OFF-LINE ALGORITHM; ON-LINE ALGORITHMS; OPTIMISATIONS; PROBLEM FORMULATION; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM; STOCHASTIC DURATIONS; STOCHASTIC EXPERIMENT;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 85162387635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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