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SSS
2010
Springer
128views Control Systems» more  SSS 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
On Transactional Scheduling in Distributed Transactional Memory Systems
We present a distributed transactional memory (TM) scheduler called Bi-interval that optimizes the execution order of transactional operations to minimize conflicts. Bi-interval c...
Junwhan Kim, Binoy Ravindran
ICML
2005
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Dynamic preferences in multi-criteria reinforcement learning
The current framework of reinforcement learning is based on maximizing the expected returns based on scalar rewards. But in many real world situations, tradeoffs must be made amon...
Sriraam Natarajan, Prasad Tadepalli
ICRA
2008
IEEE
135views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Distributed grasp synthesis for swarm manipulation with applications to autonomous tugboats
— Assume a swarm of mobile robots is in the act of transporting a large object in the plane, by applying unilateral forces to the perimeter of that object. We address the questio...
Joel M. Esposito
IWCIA
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Joint Non-rigid Motion Estimation and Segmentation
Abstract. Usually object segmentation and motion estimation are considered (and modelled) as different tasks. For motion estimation this leads to problems arising especially at th...
Boris Flach, Radim Sára
VLDB
1998
ACM
101views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
15 years 2 months ago
On Optimal Node Splitting for R-trees
The problem of finding an optimal bipartition of a rectangle set has a direct impact on query performance of dynamic R-trees. During update operations, overflowed nodes need to be...
Yván J. García, Mario A. Lopez, Scot...