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PDC
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Social creativity: turning barriers into opportunities for collaborative design
Design is a ubiquitous activity. The complexity of design problems requires communities rather than individuals to address, frame, and solve them. These design communities have to...
Gerhard Fischer
ICALP
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Correlation Clustering Revisited: The "True" Cost of Error Minimization Problems
Correlation Clustering was defined by Bansal, Blum, and Chawla as the problem of clustering a set of elements based on a possibly inconsistent binary similarity function between e...
Nir Ailon, Edo Liberty
MFCS
1994
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
"The Big Sweep": On the Power of the Wavefront Approach to Voronoi Diagrams
We show that the wavefront approach to Voronoi diagrams (a deterministic line sweep algorithm that does not use geometric transform) can be generalized to distance measures more g...
Frank K. H. A. Dehne, Rolf Klein
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
114views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Policy teaching through reward function learning
Policy teaching considers a Markov Decision Process setting in which an interested party aims to influence an agent’s decisions by providing limited incentives. In this paper, ...
Haoqi Zhang, David C. Parkes, Yiling Chen
IGPL
2008
124views more  IGPL 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
The Ricean Objection: An Analogue of Rice's Theorem for First-order Theories
We propose here an extension of Rice's Theorem to first-order logic, proven by totally elementary means. If P is any property defined over the collection of all first-order t...
Igor Carboni Oliveira, Walter Alexandre Carnielli