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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Teleoperation of Steerable Needles
— Needles are commonly used in medical practice as a minimally invasive means to reach subsurface targets for diagnosis or therapy delivery. Recent results indicate that steerabl...
Joseph M. Romano, Robert J. Webster III, Allison M...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
12 years 10 months ago
Connectivity maintenance in mobile wireless networks via constrained mobility
—We explore distributed mechanisms for maintaining the physical layer connectivity of a mobile wireless network while still permitting significant area coverage. Moreover, we re...
Joshua Reich, Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein, Gil Zu...
ICML
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Proto-value functions: developmental reinforcement learning
This paper presents a novel framework called proto-reinforcement learning (PRL), based on a mathematical model of a proto-value function: these are task-independent basis function...
Sridhar Mahadevan
ICAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
Weatherman: Automated, Online and Predictive Thermal Mapping and Management for Data Centers
— Recent advances have demonstrated the potential benefits of coordinated management of thermal load in data centers, including reduced cooling costs and improved resistance to ...
Justin D. Moore, Jeffrey S. Chase, Parthasarathy R...
SIGOPS
2008
146views more  SIGOPS 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Vigilant: out-of-band detection of failures in virtual machines
What do our computer systems do all day? How do we make sure they continue doing it when failures occur? Traditional approaches to answering these questions often involve inband m...
Dan Pelleg, Muli Ben-Yehuda, Richard Harper, Lisa ...