Increased platform heterogeneity and varying resource availability in distributed systems motivates the design of resource-aware applications, which ensure a desired performance l...
Reinforcement Learning is commonly used for learning tasks in robotics, however, traditional algorithms can take very long training times. Reward shaping has been recently used to ...
Ana C. Tenorio-Gonzalez, Eduardo F. Morales, Luis ...
We use relaxation to produce painted imagery from images and video. An energy function is first specified; we then search for a painting with minimal energy. The appeal of this st...
Ubiquitous computing technologies which are cheap and easy to use are more likely to be adopted by users beyond the ubiquitous computing community. We present an ultrasonic-only tr...
Paul Duff, Michael R. McCarthy, Angus Clark, Henk ...
Conversations abound with uncertainties of various kinds. Treating conversation as inference and decision making under uncertainty, we propose a task independent, multimodal archi...