Combinatorial auctions, that is, auctions where bidders can bid on combinations of items, tend to lead to more efficient allocations than traditional auction mechanisms in multi-i...
Abstract—Autonomous robot navigation in unstructured outdoor environments is a challenging area of active research. The navigation task requires identifying safe, traversable pat...
Michael J. Procopio, Jane Mulligan, Gregory Z. Gru...
In this paper, a method for automatic classification of Hidden-Web databases is addressed. In our approach, the classification tree for Hidden Web databases is constructed by tailo...
In this paper, we propose an object detection approach using spatial histogram features. As spatial histograms consist of marginal distributions of an image over local patches, th...
This paper discusses a novel distributed adaptive algorithm and representation used to construct populations of adaptive Web agents. These InfoSpiders browse networked information ...