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IJRR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Planning High-quality Paths and Corridors Amidst Obstacles
The motion-planning problem, involving the computation of a collision-free path for a moving entity amidst obstacles, is a central problem in fields like Robotics and Game Design....
Ron Wein, Jur P. van den Berg, Dan Halperin
ICDCN
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Byzantine-Resilient Convergence in Oblivious Robot Networks
Given a set of robots with arbitrary initial location and no agreement on a global coordinate system, convergence requires that all robots asymptotically approach the exact same, ...
Zohir Bouzid, Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru, S&e...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 18 days ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Fast shortest path distance estimation in large networks
In this paper we study approximate landmark-based methods for point-to-point distance estimation in very large networks. These methods involve selecting a subset of nodes as landm...
Michalis Potamias, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castil...
PODS
2000
ACM
179views Database» more  PODS 2000»
14 years 4 days ago
Selectivity Estimation for Boolean Queries
In a variety of applications ranging from optimizing queries on alphanumeric attributes to providing approximate counts of documents containing several query terms, there is an in...
Zhiyuan Chen, Flip Korn, Nick Koudas, S. Muthukris...