This paper examines the single-commodity stochastic network design problem with multiple sources and sinks. We characterize the structures of the optimal designs and compare with the deterministic counterparts. We do this primarily to understand what constitutes good robust network designs, but hope that the understanding can also be used to develop better heuristic algorithms than those availa...

The long-term goal of our research is to develop algorithms that use widely spaced hydrophone arrays to localize and track multiple unknown sound sources, possibly in shallow-water environments, over long distances. By developing methods to simultaneously track multiple vocalizing marine mammals, we hope to contribute to the fields of marine mammal bioacoustics, ecology, and anthropogenic impac...

Mentoring is a social intervention that can provide needed guidance and support from caring adults in the lives of youth if developed and implemented effectively. Over the years much enthusiasm for these types of programs has been generated making it relatively easy to gain buy-in from parents, teachers, and other stakeholders. Well known mentoring programs, such as those affiliated with Big Br...

This introduction is meant for readers with no knowledge about reinforcement learning. It presents the basic framework and introduce the basic terminology. We hope that this will make it easier to read other reinforcement learning literature. Pointers to more tutorial sources will be given at the end.