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CSCW
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Spatiality in videoconferencing: trade-offs between efficiency and social presence
In this paper, we explore ways to combine the video of a remote person with a shared tabletop display to best emulate face-to-face collaboration. Using a simple photo application ...
Jörg Hauber, Holger Regenbrecht, Mark Billing...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Efficient multi-agent reinforcement learning through automated supervision
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms suffer from slow convergence and even divergence, especially in large-scale systems. In this work, we develop a supervision fr...
Chongjie Zhang, Sherief Abdallah, Victor R. Lesser
LREC
2010
154views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
CCASH: A Web Application Framework for Efficient, Distributed Language Resource Development
We introduce CCASH (Cost-Conscious Annotation Supervised by Humans), an extensible web application framework for cost-efficient annotation. CCASH provides a framework in which cos...
Paul Felt, Owen Merkling, Marc Carmen, Eric K. Rin...
ICMAS
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Heterogeneity, Stability, and Efficiency in Distributed Systems
This paper explores the increasing the heterogeneity of an agent population to stabilize decentralized systems by adding bias terms to each agent's expected payoffs. Two appr...
James D. Thomas, Katia P. Sycara
GISCIENCE
2010
Springer
231views GIS» more  GISCIENCE 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient Data Collection and Event Boundary Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Tiny Models
Using wireless geosensor networks (WGSN), sensor nodes often monitor a phenomenon that is both continuous in time and space. However, sensor nodes take discrete samples, and an ana...
Kraig King, Silvia Nittel