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IROS
2006
IEEE
159views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
Multi-Level Surface Maps for Outdoor Terrain Mapping and Loop Closing
— To operate outdoors or on non-flat surfaces, mobile robots need appropriate data structures that provide a compact representation of the environment and at the same time suppo...
Rudolph Triebel, Patrick Pfaff, Wolfram Burgard
PODC
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Quorum placement in networks: minimizing network congestion
A quorum system over a universe of logical elements is a collection of subsets (quorums) of elements, any two of which intersect. In numerous distributed algorithms, the elements ...
Daniel Golovin, Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Flor...
STORAGESS
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Long-term threats to secure archives
Archival storage systems are designed for a write-once, read-maybe usage model which places an emphasis on the long-term preservation of their data contents. In contrast to tradit...
Mark W. Storer, Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller
MIR
2005
ACM
129views Multimedia» more  MIR 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Multi-graph enabled active learning for multimodal web image retrieval
In this paper, we propose a multimodal Web image retrieval technique based on multi-graph enabled active learning. The main goal is to leverage the heterogeneous data on the Web t...
Xin-Jing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma, Lei Zhang, Xing Li
AMIRE
2005
Springer
198views Robotics» more  AMIRE 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Extending the Temporal Horizon of Autonomous Robots
Abstract. We introduce mathematically rigorous metrics on agent experiences having various temporal horizons. Sensorimotor variables accessible to the agent are treated as informat...
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Naeem Assif Mirza, Kerstin...