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IROS
2008
IEEE
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A scalable and distributed approach for self-assembly and self-healing of a differentiated shape
— As the ability to produce a large number of small, simple robotic agents improves, it becomes essential to control the behavior of these robots in such a way that the sum of th...
Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen
SBACPAD
2008
IEEE
126views Hardware» more  SBACPAD 2008»
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A Software Transactional Memory System for an Asymmetric Processor Architecture
Due to the advent of multi-core processors and the consequent need for better concurrent programming abstractions, new synchronization paradigms have emerged. A promising one, kno...
Felipe Goldstein, Alexandro Baldassin, Paulo Cento...
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AIIA
2007
Springer
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Reinforcement Learning in Complex Environments Through Multiple Adaptive Partitions
The application of Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms to learn tasks for robots is often limited by the large dimension of the state space, which may make prohibitive its appli...
Andrea Bonarini, Alessandro Lazaric, Marcello Rest...
BTW
2007
Springer
142views Database» more  BTW 2007»
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Algebraic Query Optimization for Distributed Top-k Queries
: Distributed top-k query processing is increasingly becoming an essential functionality in a large number of emerging application classes. This paper addresses the efficient alge...
Thomas Neumann, Sebastian Michel
EUROPAR
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
On the Connectivity of Bluetooth-Based Ad Hoc Networks
We study the connectivity properties of a family of random graphs which closely model the Bluetooth’s device discovery process, where each device tries to connect to other device...
Pilu Crescenzi, Carlo Nocentini, Andrea Pietracapr...