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To improve the system performance towards the Shannon limit, advanced radio resource management mechanisms play a fundamental role. In particular, scheduling should receive much attention, because it allocates radio resources among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jian Wang , Chen Xu , Rong Li , Yiqun Ge , Jun Wang

This article proposes a novel approach to traffic signal control that combines phase re-service with reinforcement learning (RL). The RL agent directly determines the duration of the next phase in a pre-defined sequence. Before the RL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Zhiyao Zhang , George Gunter , Marcos Quinones-Grueiro , Yuhang Zhang , William Barbour , Gautam Biswas , Daniel Work

In this paper, we propose a novel, computational efficient, dynamic ridesharing algorithm. The beneficial computational properties of the algorithm arise from casting the ridesharing problem as a linear assignment problem between fleet…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Andrea Simonetto , Julien Monteil , Claudio Gambella

This paper addresses the critical challenge of managing Quality of Service (QoS) in cloud services, focusing on the nuances of individual tenant expectations and varying Service Level Indicators (SLIs). It introduces a novel approach…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Enrico Russo , Francesco Giulio Blanco , Maurizio Palesi , Giuseppe Ascia , Davide Patti , Vincenzo Catania

In the wake of the highly electrified future ahead of us, the role of energy storage is crucial wherever distributed generation is abundant, such as in microgrid settings. Given the variety of storage options that are becoming more and more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 S. Tsianikas , N. Yousefi , J. Zhou , M. Rodgers , D. W. Coit

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a powerful tool used for addressing complex challenges in mobile networks. This paper investigates the application of two DRL models, on-policy and off-policy, in the field of resource allocation for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Manal Mehdaoui , Amine Abouaomar

Trust region policy optimization (TRPO) is a popular and empirically successful policy search algorithm in Reinforcement Learning (RL) in which a surrogate problem, that restricts consecutive policies to be 'close' to one another, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Lior Shani , Yonathan Efroni , Shie Mannor

Problem definition: For original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), high-tech maintenance is a strategic component in after-sales services, involving close coordination between customers and service engineers. Each customer suggests several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiao Mao , Albert H. Schrotenboer , Guohua Wu , Willem van Jaarsveld

Designing sample-efficient and computationally feasible reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms is particularly challenging in environments with large or infinite state and action spaces. In this paper, we advance this effort by presenting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zakaria Mhammedi

Bike-sharing systems (BSS) provide a sustainable urban mobility solution, but ensuring their reliability requires effective rebalancing strategies to address stochastic demand and prevent station imbalances. This paper proposes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaqi Liang , Defeng Liu , Sanjay Dominik Jena , Andrea Lodi , Thibaut Vidal

Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) services have been an active research topic in recent years. Many studies focused on developing control algorithms to supply efficient services. To cope with a large search space to solve the underlying vehicle…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Fynn Wolf , Roman Engelhardt , Yunfei Zhang , Florian Dandl , Klaus Bogenberger

In this article, we propose a novel formulation for the resource allocation problem of a sliced and disaggregated Radio Access Network (RAN) and its transport network. Our proposal assures an end-to-end delay bound for the Ultra-Reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Flávio G. C. Rocha , Gabriel M. F. de Almeida , Kleber V. Cardoso , Cristiano B. Both , José F. de Rezende

Recently, safe reinforcement learning (RL) with the actor-critic structure for continuous control tasks has received increasing attention. It is still challenging to learn a near-optimal control policy with safety and convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Xinglong Zhang , Yaoqian Peng , Biao Luo , Wei Pan , Xin Xu , Haibin Xie

Round Robin (RR) scheduling algorithm is a preemptive scheduling algorithm. It is designed especially for time sharing Operating System (OS). In RR scheduling algorithm the CPU switches between the processes when the static Time Quantum…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Sanjaya Kumar Panda , Sourav Kumar Bhoi

While the concept of Artificial Intelligent Internet of Things\ (AIoT) is booming, computation and/or communication-intensive tasks accompanied by several sub-tasks are slowly moving from centralized deployment to edge-side deployment. The…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Liang Chen , Jianpeng Qi , Xiao Su , Rui Wang

Efficient timing in ride-matching is crucial for improving the performance of ride-hailing and ride-pooling services, as it determines the number of drivers and passengers considered in each matching process. Traditional batched matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yiman Bao , Jie Gao , Jinke He , Frans A. Oliehoek , Oded Cats

Learning-based approaches, particularly reinforcement learning (RL), have become widely used for developing control policies for autonomous agents, such as locomotion policies for legged robots. RL training typically maximizes a predefined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Dylan Khor , Bowen Weng

We propose ReinFlow, a simple yet effective online reinforcement learning (RL) framework that fine-tunes a family of flow matching policies for continuous robotic control. Derived from rigorous RL theory, ReinFlow injects learnable noise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tonghe Zhang , Chao Yu , Sichang Su , Yu Wang

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is critical for industrial applications such as recommender system and online advertising. Practically, it plays an important role for CTR modeling in these applications by mining user interest from rich…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Qi Pi , Weijie Bian , Guorui Zhou , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Kun Gai

Edge computing allows Service Providers (SPs) to enhance user experience by placing their services closer to the network edge. Determining the optimal provisioning of edge resources to meet the varying and uncertain demand cost-effectively…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Jiaming Cheng , Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Duong Tung Nguyen