We analyze the performance of the novel Markov chain stochastic modeling technique for derivation of effective equations for a set of essential variables. This technique is an empi...
The utility of including cyclic flow of control in plans has been long recognized by the planning community. Loops in a plan increase both its applicability and the compactness o...
Siddharth Srivastava, Neil Immerman, Shlomo Zilber...
Freuder and Elfe (1996) introduced Neighborhood Inverse Consistency (NIC) for binary CSPs. In this paper, we introduce RNIC, the extension of NIC to nonbinary CSPs, and describe a...
Robert J. Woodward, Shant Karakashian, Berthe Y. C...
We describe the Fourier Basis, a linear value function approximation scheme based on the Fourier Series. We empirically evaluate its properties, and demonstrate that it performs w...
Selection bias, caused by preferential exclusion of samples from the data, is a major obstacle to valid causal and statistical inferences; it cannot be removed by randomized exper...