This paper describes Icarus, an agent architecture that embeds a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm within a language for specifying agent behavior. An Icarus program e...
In this paper we show how the classical job-shop scheduling problem can be modeled as a special class of acyclic timed automata. Finding an optimal schedule corresponds, then, to n...
: This paper has several contributions. First, we report that long sudden delays during data transfers are not uncommon in the GPRS wireless WAN. Long sudden delays can lead to spu...
In content based retrieval, color indexing is one of the most prevalent retrieval methods. Two key problems in color indexing are (1) determination of the color space and (2) fin...
A novel approach for human silhouette recognition is presented. The method is based on Fourier descriptors. We made an analysis of which and how many descriptors are enough to hav...