Operator-based programming languages provide an effective development model for large scale stream processing applications. A stream processing application consists of many runtim...
Xiaolan J. Zhang, Sujay Parekh, Bugra Gedik, Henri...
My thesis aims to contribute towards building autonomous agents that are able to understand their surrounding environment through the use of both audio and visual information. To ...
Many scheduling problems reside in uncertain and dynamic environments – tasks have a nonzero probability of failure and may need to be rescheduled. In these cases, an optimized ...
Andrew M. Sutton, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitle...
Enforced hill-climbing is an effective deterministic hillclimbing technique that deals with local optima using breadth-first search (a process called "basin flooding"). ...
Flexible general purpose robots need to tailor their visual processing to their task, on the fly. We propose a new approach to this within a planning framework, where the goal is ...