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GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Recognition of island structures for map generalization
In this paper we describe work on the automatic recognition of island structures. In an initial phase several test persons were asked to mark groups of islands that they perceived...
Stefan Steiniger, Dirk Burghardt, Robert Weibel
PODC
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A modular approach to shared-memory consensus, with applications to the probabilistic-write model
We define two new classes of shared-memory objects: ratifiers, which detect agreement, and conciliators, which ensure agreement with some probability. We show that consensus can...
James Aspnes
HT
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Statistical properties of inter-arrival times distribution in social tagging systems
Folksonomies provide a rich source of data to study social patterns taking place on the World Wide Web. Here we study the temporal patterns of users’ tagging activity. We show t...
Andrea Capocci, Andrea Baldassarri, Vito Domenico ...
CORR
2006
Springer
135views Education» more  CORR 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
An equilibrium model for matching impatient demand and patient supply over time
We present a simple dynamic equilibrium model for an online exchange where both buyers and sellers arrive according to a exogenously defined stochastic process. The structure of t...
Garud Iyengar, Anuj Kumar
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
SarsaLandmark: an algorithm for learning in POMDPs with landmarks
Reinforcement learning algorithms that use eligibility traces, such as Sarsa(λ), have been empirically shown to be effective in learning good estimated-state-based policies in pa...
Michael R. James, Satinder P. Singh