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RAS
2016
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A visual servoing approach for autonomous corridor following and doorway passing in a wheelchair
Navigating within an unknown indoor environment using an electric wheelchair is a challenging task, especially if the user suffers from severe disabilities. In order to reduce fa...
François Pasteau, Vishnu K. Narayanan, Mari...
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RAS
2016
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Hobbit, a care robot supporting independent living at home: First prototype and lessons learned
: One option to address the challenge of demographic transition is to build robots that enable aging in place. Falling has been identified as the most relevant factor to cause a mo...
David Fischinger, Peter Einramhof, Konstantinos E....
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QUESTA
2016
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Two-choice regulation in heterogeneous closed networks
A heterogeneous closed network with N one-server queues with finite capacity and one infinite-server queue is studied. A target application is bike-sharing systems. Heterogeneity...
Christine Fricker, Nicolas Servel
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QUESTA
2016
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A service system with on-demand agent invitations
We consider a service system where agents are invited on-demand. Customers arrive exogenously as a Poisson process and join a customer queue upon arrival if no agent is available....
Guodong Pang, Alexander L. Stolyar
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QUESTA
2016
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Robust queueing theory: an initial study using imprecise probabilities
Stavros Lopatatzidis, Jasper De Bock, Gert de Coom...
QRE
2016
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Risk Assessment of Railway Transportation Systems using Timed Fault Trees
Safety is an essential requirement for railway transportation. There are many methods that have been developed to predict, prevent and mitigate accidents in this context. All of t...
Zhaoguang Peng, Yu Lu, Alice Miller, Chris Johnson...
QRE
2016
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Optimal Design of Pre-control Plans
Pre-control is a quality tool for quick set-up approvals, especially used in short-run processes. It is based on specifications instead of on the natural variability of the proce...
Vicent Giner-Bosch, Susana San Matías, M&oa...
QIC
2016
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Security analysis of Quantum-Readout PUFs in the case of challenge-estimation attacks
Quantum Readout PUFs (QR-PUFs) have been proposed as a technique for remote authentication of objects. The security is based on basic quantum information theoretic principles and ...
Boris Skoric
PVLDB
2016
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Maximizing Bichromatic Reverse Spatial and Textual k Nearest Neighbor Queries
The problem of maximizing bichromatic reverse k nearest neighbor queries (BRkNN) has been extensively studied in spatial databases. In this work, we present a related query for sp...
Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, J. Shane Culpepper, Tim...
PVLDB
2016
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LEOPARD: Lightweight Edge-Oriented Partitioning and Replication for Dynamic Graphs
This paper introduces a dynamic graph partitioning algorithm, designed for large, constantly changing graphs. We propose a partitioning framework that adjusts on the fly as the g...
Jiewen Huang, Daniel Abadi