AI
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
The ability to achieve one’s goals is a defining characteristic of intelligent behaviour. A great many existing theories, systems and research programmes address the problems a...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 1 months ago
2010
Springer
We investigate optimal routing and scheduling strategies for multi-hop wireless networks with rateless codes. Rateless codes allow each node of the network to accumulate mutual in...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 1 months ago
2010
Springer
We consider deployment problems where a mobile robotic network must optimize its configuration in a distributed way in order to minimize a steady-state cost function that depends ...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 1 months ago
2010
Springer
We explore the intricate interdependent relationship among counting problems, considered from three frameworks for such problems: Holant Problems, counting CSP and weighted H-color...
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
2010
IEEE
Extremal optimisation (EO) is a relatively recent nature-inspired heuristic whose search method is especially suitable to solve combinatorial optimisation problems. To date, most o...
AMAI
2010
Springer
13 years 1 months ago
2010
Springer
Constraints and quantitative preferences, or costs, are very useful for modelling many real-life problems. However, in many settings, it is difficult to specify precise preference ...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
Field testing of a software application prior to general release is an important and essential quality assurance step. Field testing helps identify unforeseen problems. Extensive ...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
The Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is a popular tool in statistical estimation problems involving incomplete data or in problems which can be posed in a similar form, suc...
ICCV
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
A fundamental problem in computer vision (CV) is the estimation of geometric parameters from multiple observations obtained from images; examples of such problems range from ellip...
ICCV
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
We describe an energy minimization algorithm for functions defined on 4-connected lattices, of the type usually encountered in problems involving images. Such functions are often ...