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 ...

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 ...

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, ...