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ISER
1995
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Stiffness Isn't Everything
Most robot designers make the mechanical interface between an actuator and its load as stiff as possible[9][10]. This makes sense in traditional position-controlled systems, becau...
Gill A. Pratt, Matthew M. Williamson, Peter Dilwor...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 15 min ago
Mobile opportunistic commerce: mechanisms, architecture, and application
We present mechanisms, architectures, and an implementation addressing challenges with mobile opportunistic commerce centering on markets and mechanisms that support the procureme...
Ece Kamar, Eric Horvitz, Chris Meek
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
A distributed normative infrastructure for situated multi-agent organisations
In most of the existing approaches to the design of multiagent systems, there is no clear way in which to relate organisational and normative structures to the model of the enviro...
Fabio Y. Okuyama, Rafael H. Bordini, Antônio...
DAC
2005
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
How accurately can we model timing in a placement engine?
This paper presents a novel placement algorithm for timing optimization based on a new and powerful concept, which we term differential timing analysis. Recognizing that accurate ...
Amit Chowdhary, Karthik Rajagopal, Satish Venkates...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Providing awareness in multi-synchronous collaboration without compromising privacy
When involved in collaborative tasks, users often choose to use multi-synchronous applications in order to concurrently work in isolation. Hence, privacy of their changes is maint...
Claudia-Lavinia Ignat, Stavroula Papadopoulou, G&e...