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ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
We present a new polynomial-space algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Optimization problems (DCOP). The algorithm, called NCBB, is branch and bound search with modificati...
AAAI
1998
13 years 8 months ago
1998
We describe a general approach to optimization which we term Squeaky Wheel" Optimization SWO. In SWO, a greedy algorithm is used to construct a solution which is then analyze...
MONET
2006
13 years 7 months ago
2006
The Open Spectrum approach to spectrum access can achieve near-optimal utilization by allowing devices to sense and utilize available spectrum opportunistically. However, a naive d...
ICMI
2004
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
2004
Springer
In this paper, we propose a multimodal system for detecting human activity and interaction patterns in a nursing home. Activities of groups of people are firstly treated as intera...
CCS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2008
ACM
We propose an approach for the selective enforcement of access control restrictions in, possibly distributed, large data collections based on two basic concepts: i) flexible autho...