For a system of cooperative mobile robots to be effective in real-world applications, it must be able to efficiently execute a wide class of complex tasks in potentially unknown a...
A robotic chauffeur should reason about spatial information with a variety of scales, dimensions, and ontologies. Rich representations of both the quantitative and qualitative cha...
Patrick Beeson, Matt MacMahon, Joseph Modayil, Ani...
Abstract—We present a distributed connectivity service that allows agents in a mobile ad-hoc network to move while preserving connectivity. This allows unmodified motion plannin...
Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...
Markov Decision Processes (MDP) have been widely used as a framework for planning under uncertainty. They allow to compute optimal sequences of actions in order to achieve a given...