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FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 17 days ago
Rapidly Mixing Markov Chains for Sampling Contingency Tables with a Constant Number of Rows
We consider the problem of sampling almost uniformly from the set of contingency tables with given row and column sums, when the number of rows is a constant. Cryan and Dyer [3] h...
Mary Cryan, Martin E. Dyer, Leslie Ann Goldberg, M...
DCOSS
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Frugal Sensor Assignment
When a sensor network is deployed in the field it is typically required to support multiple simultaneous missions, which may start and finish at different times. Schemes that match...
Matthew P. Johnson, Hosam Rowaihy, Diego Pizzocaro...
NIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Improved Moves for Truncated Convex Models
We consider the problem of obtaining the approximate maximum a posteriori estimate of a discrete random field characterized by pairwise potentials that form a truncated convex mod...
M. Pawan Kumar, Philip H. S. Torr
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
VBS: Maximum Lifetime Sleep Scheduling for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Virtual Backbones
—Wireless sensor network (WSN) applications require redundant sensors to guarantee fault tolerance. However, the same degree of redundancy is not necessary for multi-hop communic...
Yaxiong Zhao, Jie Wu, Feng Li, Sanglu Lu
TROB
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Active 3D Object Localization Using a Humanoid Robot
—We study the problem of actively searching for an object in a 3D environment under the constraint of a maximum search time, using a visually guided humanoid robot with twentysix...
Alexander Andreopoulos, Stephan Hasler, Heiko Wers...