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NCA
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Composable continuous-space programs for robotic swarms
Programmability is an increasingly important barrier to the deployment of multi-robot systems, as no prior approach allows routine composition and reuse of general aggregate behavi...
Jonathan Bachrach, Jacob Beal, James McLurkin
PAMI
2002
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13 years 8 months ago
On the Individuality of Fingerprints
Fingerprint identification is based on two basic premises: (i) persistence: the basic characteristics of fingerprints do not change with time; and (ii) individuality: the fingerpr...
Sharath Pankanti, Salil Prabhakar, Anil K. Jain
ENTCS
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
A Framework for Modelling and Simulating Networks of Cells
Several complex biological phenomena are to be modelled in terms of a large and dynamic network of compartments, where the interplay between inter-compartment and intra-compartmen...
Sara Montagna, Mirko Viroli
SAC
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Boundary extraction in thermal images by edge map
Extracting object boundaries in thermal images is a challenging task because of the amorphous nature of the images and the lack of sharp boundaries. Classical edge-based segmentat...
Quming Zhou, Zhuojing Li, Jake K. Aggarwal
DNA
2008
Springer
149views Bioinformatics» more  DNA 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Connecting the Dots: Molecular Machinery for Distributed Robotics
Abstract. Nature is considered one promising area to search for inspiration in designing robotic systems. Some work in swarm robotics has tried to build systems that resemble distr...
Yuriy Brun, Dustin Reishus