A helicopter agent has to plan trajectories to track multiple ground targets from the air. The agent has partial information of each target's pose, and must reason about its u...
One of the principal advantages of parallelizing a rule-based system, or more generally, any A.I. system, is the ability to pursue alternate search paths concurrently. Conventiona...
This paper discusses the use of Binary Partition Trees (BPTs) for object detection. BPTs are hierarchical region-based representations of images. They define a reduced set of regio...
While graphical user interfaces have gained much popularity in recent years, there are situations when the need to use existing applications in a nonvisual modality is clear. Exam...
I present MOSES (meta-optimizing semantic evolutionary search), a new probabilistic modeling (estimation of distribution) approach to program evolution. Distributions are not esti...