Local search algorithms often get trapped in local optima. Algorithms such as tabu search and simulated annealing 'escape' local optima by accepting nonimproving moves. ...
Laura Barbulescu, Jean-Paul Watson, L. Darrell Whi...
This paper describes the software architecture of an autonomous tour-guide/tutor robot. This robot was recently deployed in the "Deutsches Museum Bonn," were it guided h...
Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dir...
Temporal plans permit significant flexibility in specifying the occurrence time of events. Plan execution can make good use of that flexibility. However, the advantage of executio...
Ioannis Tsamardinos, Nicola Muscettola, Paul H. Mo...
The role that design by contract plays in the specification, monitoring, and reuse of classes is of increasing importance in the OO community. Although recognizably useful, neverth...
In order to transmit or store three-dimensional (3-D) mesh models efficiently, we need to simplify them. Although the quadric error metric (QEM) provides fast and accurate geometr...