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IROS
2008
IEEE
89views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Scaling effects in multi-robot control
— The present study investigates the effect of the number of controlled robots on performance of an urban search and rescue (USAR) task using a realistic simulation. Task perform...
Prasanna Velagapudi, Paul Scerri, Katia P. Sycara,...
GECCO
2004
Springer
166views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
An Effective Chromosome Representation for Evolving Flexible Job Shop Schedules
As the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (or FJSP) is strongly NP-hard, using an evolutionary approach to find near-optimal solutions requires effective chromosome representatio...
Joc Cing Tay, Djoko Wibowo
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 days ago
The Effect of Nogood Learning in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction
We present resolvent-based learning as a new nogood learning method for a distributed constraint satisfaction algorithm. This method is based on a look-back technique in constrain...
Makoto Yokoo, Katsutoshi Hirayama
VLDB
1994
ACM
140views Database» more  VLDB 1994»
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining
Spatial data mining is the discovery of interesting relationships and characteristics that may exist implicitly in spatial databases. In this paper, we explore whether clustering ...
Raymond T. Ng, Jiawei Han
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
When is Self-Training Effective for Parsing?
Self-training has been shown capable of improving on state-of-the-art parser performance (McClosky et al., 2006) despite the conventional wisdom on the matter and several studies ...
David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson