In the linear programming approach to approximate dynamic programming, one tries to solve a certain linear program-the ALP-that has a relatively small number K of variables but an intractable number M ...

In addition to StretchDB and AlwaysEncrypted, there are two more exciting features in the works for SQL Server 2016: dynamic data masking and row-level security. In the case of these two features, ...

When the state space becomes large, traditional techniques, such as the backward dynamic programming algorithm (i.e., backward induction or value iteration), may no longer be effective in finding a ...