Traditionally, optimizers are “programmed” to optimize queries following a set of buildin procedures. However, optimizers should be robust to its changing environment to gener...
Billiards is a game of both strategy and physical skill. To succeed, a player must be able to select strong shots, and then execute them accurately and consistently. Several robot...
We propose a novel general framework with a boosting algorithm to achieve active object classification by view selection. The proposed framework actively decides the next best vie...
In the era of multicores, many applications that tend to require substantial compute power and data crunching (aka Throughput Computing Applications) can now be run on desktop PCs...
Chi-Keung Luk, Ryan Newton, William Hasenplaugh, M...
Given a universe U of n elements and a weighted collection S of m subsets of U, the universal set cover problem is to a-priori map each element u ∈ U to a set S(u) ∈ S contain...