Browsing MS non-thesis Research Papers (EECS) by Author "Fern, Alan"

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Finding and using chokepoints in Stratagus

Brewster, Benjamin (2007)

This paper describes a method for finding areas of interest on a two-dimensional grid map used in the real-time strategy engine Stratagus. The method involves discovering chokepoints where through all simulation agents m ...
Myopic policies for budgeted optimization with constrained experiments

Lin, Wei; Fern, Alan; Fern, Xiaoli (2009-01-20)

Motivated by a real-world problem, we study a novel setting for budgeted optimization where the goal is to optimize an unknown function f(x) given a budget. In our setting, it is not practical to request samples of f(x) ...
Simulation-based optimization of football defenses

Oberoi, Daman; Fern, Alan ([S.l. : s.n.], 2006-12-07)

We develop a system for simulation-based optimization of defensive formations for American football. The first component of the system is an environment for simulating football plays with real physical interactions betwe ...
Structured network coding

Saireddy, Balaji (2008-12-15)

Network coding is a transmission paradigm that is known to achieve better network throughput in certain multicast topologies; however, the practicality of network coding has been questioned due to its high computational ...