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IROS
2008
IEEE
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15 years 7 months ago
Generalizing metamodules to simplify planning in modular robotic systems
— In this paper we develop a theory of metamodules and an associated distributed asynchronous planner which generalizes previous work on metamodules for lattice-based modular rob...
Daniel J. Dewey, Michael P. Ashley-Rollman, Michae...
CMOT
2004
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15 years 14 days ago
Networks, Fields and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics, Scale and Cohesive Embeddings
Social action is situated in fields that are simultaneously composed of interpersonal ties and relations among organizations, which are both usefully characterized as social netwo...
Douglas R. White, Jason Owen-Smith, James Moody, W...
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IJCV
2002
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15 years 11 days ago
Self-Calibration of Rotating and Zooming Cameras
In this paper we describe the theory and practice of self-calibration of cameras which are fixed in location and may freely rotate while changing their internal parameters by zoomi...
Lourdes de Agapito, Eric Hayman, Ian D. Reid
MP
2002
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15 years 8 days ago
Nonlinear rescaling vs. smoothing technique in convex optimization
We introduce an alternative to the smoothing technique approach for constrained optimization. As it turns out for any given smoothing function there exists a modification with part...
Roman A. Polyak
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HEURISTICS
2010
14 years 10 months ago
A shift sequence based approach for nurse scheduling and a new benchmark dataset
This paper investigates an adaptive constructive method for solving nurse rostering problems. The constraints considered in the problems are categorised into three classes: those t...
Peter Brucker, Edmund K. Burke, Timothy Curtois, R...