Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold: to understand how recent developments in systems thinking and social construction can influence understanding of knowledge trans...
In this paper, we introduce a simple, randomized dynamic data structure for storing multidimensional point sets, called a quadtreap. This data structure is a randomized, balanced ...
This paper presents an approach to create POMDP models, used for decision making by an autonomous service robot, from background knowledge. This allows the power of POMDP decision ...
This paper describes an application of recently developed qualitative reasoning techniques to complex, socio{economic allocation problems. We explain why we believe traditional op...
This paper presents a new method for evaluating boolean set operations between Binary Space Partition (BSP) trees. Our algorithm has many desirable features including both numeric...