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ALGORITHMICA
2000
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13 years 8 months ago
Binary Searching with Nonuniform Costs and Its Application to Text Retrieval
We study the problem of minimizing the expected cost of binary searching for data where the access cost is not fixed and depends on the last accessed element, such as data stored i...
Gonzalo Navarro, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Eduardo F...
ESA
2005
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Online View Maintenance Under a Response-Time Constraint
Abstract. A materialized view is a certain synopsis structure precomputed from one or more data sets (called base tables) in order to facilitate various queries on the data. When t...
Kamesh Munagala, Jun Yang 0001, Hai Yu
AI
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Methods for Task Allocation via Agent Coalition Formation
Task execution in multi-agent environments may require cooperation among agents. Given a set of agents and a set of tasks which they have to satisfy, we consider situations where ...
Onn Shehory, Sarit Kraus
ECCV
2002
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Multi-scale EM-ICP: A Fast and Robust Approach for Surface Registration
We investigate in this article the rigid registration of large sets of points, generally sampled from surfaces. We formulate this problem as a general Maximum-Likelihood (ML) estim...
Sébastien Granger, Xavier Pennec
ATAL
2007
Springer
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Letting loose a SPIDER on a network of POMDPs: generating quality guaranteed policies
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (Distributed POMDPs) are a popular approach for modeling multi-agent systems acting in uncertain domains. Given the signi...
Pradeep Varakantham, Janusz Marecki, Yuichi Yabu, ...