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ATAL
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Efficient physics-based planning: sampling search via non-deterministic tactics and skills
Motion planning for mobile agents, such as robots, acting in the physical world is a challenging task, which traditionally concerns safe obstacle avoidance. We are interested in p...
Stefan Zickler, Manuela M. Veloso
PODS
2007
ACM
151views Database» more  PODS 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
Optimization of continuous queries with shared expensive filters
We consider the problem of optimizing and executing multiple continuous queries, where each query is a conjunction of filters and each filter may occur in multiple queries. When f...
Kamesh Munagala, Utkarsh Srivastava, Jennifer Wido...
WSDM
2010
ACM
166views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
Ranking Mechanisms in Twitter-Like Forums
We study the problem of designing a mechanism to rank items in forums by making use of the user reviews such as thumb and star ratings. We compare mechanisms where forum users rat...
Anish Das Sarma, Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollap...
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...
QEST
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Quasi-Birth-Death Processes, Tree-Like QBDs, Probabilistic 1-Counter Automata, and Pushdown Systems
We begin by observing that (discrete-time) QuasiBirth-Death Processes (QBDs) are equivalent, in a precise sense, to (discrete-time) probabilistic 1-Counter Automata (p1CAs), and b...
Kousha Etessami, Dominik Wojtczak, Mihalis Yannaka...