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AAAI
2008
15 years 3 months ago
Efficient Optimization of Information-Theoretic Exploration in SLAM
We present a novel method for information-theoretic exploration, leveraging recent work on mapping and localization. We describe exploration as the constrained optimization proble...
Thomas Kollar, Nicholas Roy
ICMLA
2007
15 years 3 months ago
Scalable optimal linear representation for face and object recognition
Optimal Component Analysis (OCA) is a linear method for feature extraction and dimension reduction. It has been widely used in many applications such as face and object recognitio...
Yiming Wu, Xiuwen Liu, Washington Mio
WSC
1998
15 years 2 months ago
Use of Simulation in Optimization of Maintenance Policies
Selecting an optimum maintenance policy independent of other parameters of the production system does not always yield the overall optimum operating conditions. For instance, high...
Farhad Azadivar, J. Victor Shu
GECCO
2008
Springer
155views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
15 years 2 months ago
Integrating user preferences with particle swarms for multi-objective optimization
This paper proposes a method to use reference points as preferences to guide a particle swarm algorithm to search towards preferred regions of the Pareto front. A decision maker c...
Upali K. Wickramasinghe, Xiaodong Li
PROCEDIA
2010
75views more  PROCEDIA 2010»
14 years 12 months ago
Two derivative-free optimization algorithms for mesh quality improvement
High-quality meshes are essential in the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs), which arise in numerous science and engineering applications, as the mesh quality aff...
Jeonghyung Park, Suzanne M. Shontz