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Project Highlight: Approximate Dynamic Programming Using Bellman Residual EliminationMarkov Decision Processes (MDPs) are a powerful and general framework for addressing problems involving sequential decision-making under uncertainty. Such problems occur ... Read more |
Project Highlight: Communication and Learning in Social NetworksMost individuals form their opinions about the quality of products, social trends and political issues via their interactions in social and economic ne... Read more |
Project Highlight: Scaling Laws for Heterogeneous Wireless NetworksWe develop approximate asymptotic characterizations of the performance of large heterogeneous wireless networks. We consider the impact of location, traffic, and service heterogeneity. Th... Read more |
Project Highlight: Sum of Squares and Polynomial ConvexityGiven a multivariate polynomial how can we decide if it is globally nonnegative? This basic question appears ubiquitously in various areas of... Read more |
Project Highlight: Classification and Dimensionality Reduction Using Geometric Level Set MethodsShell International uses noisy measurements to tell the difference between two types of rock, sandstone and shale, which is useful for oi... Read more |
Project Highlight: Market Mechanisms for Matching Supply and Demand in Smart Power GridsIn the transformation of today’s power grids to smart grids, a major challenge to be overcome is to offset the supply-side un... Read more |
| LIDS NEWS |
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| Dimitri Bertsekas has been chosen as the recipient of the 2009 INFORMS Expository Writing Award. Read the full text of the announcement here. |
| At the recent 2009 INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, Dan Iancu was awarded the INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize. The Student Paper Prize recognizes the most outstanding paper in optimization that is submitted to and received by, or published in a refereed professional journal no more than three years before the closing date of the nomination. Dan is jointly supervised by Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas and Prof. Pablo Parrilo. |
| LIDS EVENTS |
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November 9 -- LIDS Seminar |
November 10 -- LIDS Seminar |
| November 12 – 14, 2009 - Symposium LIDS is organizing a major symposium Paths Ahead in the Science of Information and Decision Systems, that will bring together many of the intellectual leaders around the world in the allied fields of control, optimization, networks, communication, inference and learning. Visit http://paths.lids.mit.edu for more information and registration. |