— Mapping an environment with an imaging sensor becomes very challenging if the environment to be mapped is unknown and has to be explored. Exploration involves the planning of v...
—Telecommunications networks, and in particular optical WDM networks, are vulnerable to large-scale failures of their physical infrastructure, resulting from physical attacks (su...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Alon Efrat, Shashidhara K. Ganj...
An important drawback to the popular Belief, Desire, and Intentions (BDI) paradigm is that such systems include no element of learning from experience. In particular, the so-calle...
A general and expressive model of sequential decision making under uncertainty is provided by the Markov decision processes (MDPs) framework. Complex applications with very large ...
Situated, spontaneous speech may be ambiguous along acoustic, lexical, grammatical and semantic dimensions. To understand such a seemingly difficult signal, we propose to model th...