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CP
2011
Springer
12 years 9 months ago
Optimal Carpet Cutting
Abstract. In this paper we present a model for the carpet cutting problem in which carpet shapes are cut from a rectangular carpet roll with a fixed width and sufficiently long le...
Andreas Schutt, Peter J. Stuckey, Andrew R. Verden
AAAI
2011
12 years 9 months ago
Convex Sparse Coding, Subspace Learning, and Semi-Supervised Extensions
Automated feature discovery is a fundamental problem in machine learning. Although classical feature discovery methods do not guarantee optimal solutions in general, it has been r...
Xinhua Zhang, Yaoliang Yu, Martha White, Ruitong H...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
Empirical divergence maximization for quantizer design: An analysis of approximation error
Empirical divergence maximization is an estimation method similar to empirical risk minimization whereby the Kullback-Leibler divergence is maximized over a class of functions tha...
Michael A. Lexa
TSMC
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Comparison of Optimal Solutions to Real-Time Path Planning for a Mobile Vehicle
In this paper, we present two near-optimal methods to determine the real-time collision-free path for a mobile vehicle moving in a dynamically changing environment. The proposed de...
Jian Yang, Zhihua Qu, Jing Wang 0005, Kevin L. Con...
AMAI
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Interval-valued soft constraint problems
Constraints and quantitative preferences, or costs, are very useful for modelling many real-life problems. However, in many settings, it is difficult to specify precise preference ...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Scalable Data Exchange with Functional Dependencies
The recent literature has provided a solid theoretical foundation for the use of schema mappings in data-exchange applications. Following this formalization, new algorithms have b...
Bruno Marnette, Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Papotti
JAIR
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
An Investigation into Mathematical Programming for Finite Horizon Decentralized POMDPs
Decentralized planning in uncertain environments is a complex task generally dealt with by using a decision-theoretic approach, mainly through the framework of Decentralized Parti...
Raghav Aras, Alain Dutech
MP
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Set Intersection Theorems and Existence of Optimal Solutions
The question of nonemptiness of the intersection of a nested sequence of closed sets is fundamental in a number of important optimization topics, including the existence of optima...
Dimitri P. Bertsekas, Paul Tseng
SIAMSC
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Exact and Approximate Sparse Solutions of Underdetermined Linear Equations
Abstract. In this paper, we empirically investigate the NP-hard problem of finding sparsest solutions to linear equation systems, i.e., solutions with as few nonzeros as possible. ...
Sadegh Jokar, Marc E. Pfetsch
PAMI
2006
168views more  PAMI 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Graphical Models and Point Pattern Matching
This paper describes a novel solution to the rigid point pattern matching problem in Euclidean spaces of any dimension. Although we assume rigid motion, jitter is allowed. We pres...
Tibério S. Caetano, Terry Caelli, Dale Schu...