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>Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:04:00 -0700 (MST)
>From: Brown Tim <Timxb@Colorado.EDU>
>To: Jane.Obrecht@Colorado.EDU
>Subject: Colloqium Announcement
>X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
>
>Jane:
>Can you forward this talk announcement to CS faculty and grad students?
>Thanks, Tim
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>Research Colloquium Sponsored by the Telecom Research Group
>
>Date: Friday, February 15
>Time: 11:00am
>Place: South Conference Room (in the Deans Office)
>
>Network Control via Online Sampling of Traffic Models
>
>Edwin K. P. Chong
>Colorado State University
>
>Abstract:
>
>This talk describes an approach to designing network control algorithms
>that incorporate online sampling using traffic models. The approach
>facilitates rapid heuristic analysis of simulation data, and can
>be applied to a wide variety of network control problems.  We have
>constructed experimental implementations of our approach for several
>network decision algorithms, and shown for these examples that the
>approach dramatically improves the quality of the resulting control
>policy.
>
>Traffic models can be viewed as stochastic predictions about the future
>network state. In combination with simulation, these predictions can be
>used to generate traces of potential future network behavior
>(simulation traces). Our approach is to use such simulation traces to
>heuristically evaluate candidate control actions. The principle
>underlying this approach draws from approximation/sampling methods for
>solving large Markov decision processes. This talk will describe two
>such methods---policy rollout and hindsight optimization---and show how
>these methods can be applied to several different network control
>problems.
>
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>
>Brief Bio:
>
>Professor Edwin K. P. Chong received the B.E.(Hons.) degree with First
>Class Honors from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, in 1987;
>and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1989 and 1991, respectively, both from
>Princeton University, where he held an IBM Fellowship.  He joined the
>School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University in
>1991, where he was named a University Faculty Scholar in 1999, and was
>promoted to Professor in 2001. Since August 2001, he has been a Professor
>of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Mathematics, at
>Colorado State University.  His current interests are in communication
>networks and optimization methods.  He coauthored the recent book, An
>Introduction to Optimization, 2nd Edition, Wiley-Interscience, 2001.
>He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Computer
>Networks. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 1995 and the ASEE Frederick
>Emmons Terman Award in 1998.
>
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>Host: Tim Brown timxb@colorado.edu