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Multi-robot navigation and path planning in continuous state and action spaces with uncertain environments remains an open challenge. Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is one of the most popular paradigms for solving this task, but its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jahid Chowdhury Choton , John Woods , William Hsu

Onsite bandwidth reservation requests often face challenges such as price fluctuations and fairness issues due to unpredictable bandwidth availability and stringent latency requirements. Requesting bandwidth in advance can mitigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Abdullah Al-Khatib , Abdullah Ahmed , Klaus Moessner , Holger Timinger

Deep neural network (DNN) based approaches hold significant potential for reinforcement learning (RL) and have already shown remarkable gains over state-of-art methods in a number of applications. The effectiveness of DNN methods can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-01 Henghui Zhu , Feng Nan , Ioannis Paschalidis , Venkatesh Saligrama

Strategic valuation of efficient and well-timed network investments under uncertain electricity market environment has become increasingly challenging, because there generally exist multiple interacting options in these investments, and…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-10-22 Yiju Ma , Kevin Swandi , Archie Chapman , Gregor Verbic

This paper addresses key challenges in task scheduling for multi-tenant distributed systems, including dynamic resource variation, heterogeneous tenant demands, and fairness assurance. An adaptive scheduling method based on reinforcement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xiaopei Zhang , Xingang Wang , Xin Wang

As deep learning models continue to increase in size, the memory requirements for training have surged. While high-level techniques like offloading, recomputation, and compression can alleviate memory pressure, they also introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Huiyao Shu , Ang Wang , Ziji Shi , Hanyu Zhao , Yong Li , Lu Lu

We study a routing and appointment scheduling problem with uncertain service and travel times arising from home service practice. Specifically, given a set of customers within a service region that an operator needs to serve, we seek to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Man Yiu , Tsang , Karmel S. Shehadeh

With the cellular networks becoming increasingly agile, a major challenge lies in how to support diverse services for mobile users (MUs) over a common physical network infrastructure. Network slicing is a promising solution to tailor the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Xianfu Chen , Zhifeng Zhao , Celimuge Wu , Mehdi Bennis , Hang Liu , Yusheng Ji , Honggang Zhang

Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) services, such as taxi-like services, are promising applications. Rebalancing the vehicle locations against customer requests is a key challenge in the services because imbalance between the two worsens service…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Tomoki Nishi , Satoshi Koide , Keisuke Otaki , Ayano Okoso

Resource allocation in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments presents a complex and multifaceted challenge for job scheduling algorithms. Beyond the efficient allocation of system resources, schedulers must account for and optimize…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Matthew Sgambati , Aleksandar Vakanski , Matthew Anderson

Scheduling plays a pivotal role in multi-user wireless communications, since the quality of service of various users largely depends upon the allocated radio resources. In this paper, we propose a novel scheduling algorithm with contiguous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Shu Sun , Xiaofeng Li

Real-time end-to-end task scheduling in networked control systems (NCSs) requires the joint consideration of both network and computing resources to guarantee the desired quality of service (QoS). This paper introduces a new model for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Peng Wu , Chenchen Fu , Tianyu Wang , Minming Li , Yingchao Zhao , Chun Jason Xue , Song Han

We consider a sequential blocked matching (SBM) model where strategic agents repeatedly report ordinal preferences over a set of services to a central planner. The planner's goal is to elicit agents' true preferences and design a policy…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Nicholas Bishop , Hau Chan , Debmalya Mandal , Long Tran-Thanh

The problem of mobile sequential recommendation is presented to suggest a route connecting some pick-up points for a taxi driver so that he/she is more likely to get passengers with less travel cost. Essentially, a key challenge of this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Jianbin Huang , Xuejun Huangfu , Heli Sun , Hong Cheng , Qinbao Song

The advent of predictive methodologies has catalyzed the emergence of data-driven decision support across various domains. However, developing models capable of effectively handling input time series data presents an enduring challenge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Yijun Li , Mengzhuo Guo , Miłosz Kadziński , Qingpeng Zhang

Demand-responsive connector (DRC) services are increasingly recognized for their convenience, comfort, and efficiency, offering seamless integrations between travelers' origins/destinations and major transportation hubs such as rail…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Li Zhen , Weihua Gu

Deciding the best future execution time is a critical task in many business activities while evolving time series forecasting, and optimal timing strategy provides such a solution, which is driven by observed data. This solution has plenty…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chen Pan , Fan Zhou , Xuanwei Hu , Xinxin Zhu , Wenxin Ning , Zi Zhuang , Siqiao Xue , James Zhang , Yunhua Hu

We study the problem of deploying a fleet of mobile robots to service tasks that arrive stochastically over time and at random locations in an environment. This is known as the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem (DVRP) and requires robots to…

Selecting urban regions for metro network expansion to meet maximal transportation demands is crucial for urban development, while computationally challenging to solve. The expansion process relies not only on complicated features like…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Hongyuan Su , Yu Zheng , Jingtao Ding , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Vehicle mobility optimization in urban areas is a long-standing problem in smart city and spatial data analysis. Given the complex urban scenario and unpredictable social events, our work focuses on developing a mobile sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Pengzhan Guo , Keli Xiao , Zeyang Ye , Wei Zhu