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FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Approximability of Combinatorial Problems with Multi-agent Submodular Cost Functions
Abstract— Applications in complex systems such as the Internet have spawned recent interest in studying situations involving multiple agents with their individual cost or utility...
Gagan Goel, Chinmay Karande, Pushkar Tripathi, Lei...
SP
2003
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Hardening Functions for Large Scale Distributed Computations
Many recent large-scale distributed computing applications utilize spare processor cycles of personal computers that are connected to the Internet. The resulting distributed compu...
Doug Szajda, Barry G. Lawson, Jason Owen
EVOW
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Implicit Fitness Functions for Evolving a Drawing Robot
We describe an approach to artificially evolving a drawing robot using implicit fitness functions, which are designed to minimise any direct reference to the line patterns made by ...
Jon Bird, Phil Husbands, Martin Perris, Bill Bigge...
UAI
2004
15 years 6 months ago
Compact Value-Function Representations for Qualitative Preferences
We consider the challenge of preference elicitation in systems that help users discover the most desirable item(s) within a given database. Past work on preference elicitation foc...
Ronen I. Brafman, Carmel Domshlak, Tanya Kogan
IJCIA
2006
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15 years 4 months ago
Enhanced Frame-Based Video Coding to Support Content-Based Functionalities
Abstract-- This paper presents the enhanced frame-based video coding scheme. The input source video to the enhanced frame-based video encoder consists of a rectangular-size video a...
Prabhudev I. Hosur, Rolando Carrasco