It has been claimed that topic metadata can be used to improve the accuracy of text searches. Here, we test this claim by examining the contribution of metadata to effective search...
Finite-state and memoryless controllers are simple action selection mechanisms widely used in domains such as videogames and mobile robotics. Memoryless controllers stand for func...
In this paper we introduce a new sparseness inducing prior which does not involve any (hyper)parameters that need to be adjusted or estimated. Although other applications are poss...
: The decomposition of planning and scheduling problems is a well known technique to make these problems tractable. The resulting dependable subproblems were often solved using dif...
: The particle swarm is one of the most powerful methods for solving global optimization problems. This method is an adaptive algorithm based on social-psychological metaphor. A po...
Reza Rastegar, Mohammad Reza Meybodi, Kambiz Badie