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TCS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
This paper studies shapes (curves and surfaces) which can be described by (piecewise) polynomial support functions. The class of these shapes is closed under convolutions, offsett...
BMCBI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Background: An accurate description of protein shape derived from protein structure is necessary to establish an understanding of protein-ligand interactions, which in turn will l...
ADCM
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
A geometric derivation of numerical integrators for optimal control problems is proposed. It is based in the classical technique of generating functions adapted to the special fea...
MP
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
We consider derivative free methods based on sampling approaches for nonlinear optimization problems where derivatives of the objective function are not available and cannot be dir...
IJRR
2011
13 years 2 months ago
2011
This paper unifies and extends several different existing strategies for deploying groups of robots in an environment. A cost function is proposed that can be specialized to rep...