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ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Coalition formation with spatial and temporal constraints
The coordination of emergency responders and robots to undertake a number of tasks in disaster scenarios is a grand challenge for multi-agent systems. Central to this endeavour is...
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Maria Polukarov, Alessandro...
ESA
2010
Springer
246views Algorithms» more  ESA 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Estimating the Average of a Lipschitz-Continuous Function from One Sample
We study the problem of estimating the average of a Lipschitz continuous function f defined over a metric space, by querying f at only a single point. More specifically, we explore...
Abhimanyu Das, David Kempe
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
The case for active device drivers
We revisit the device-driver architecture supported by the majority of operating systems, where a driver is a passive object that does not have its own thread of control and is on...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Yanjin Zhu, Gernot Heiser
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Maintenance goals of agents in a dynamic environment: Formulation and policy construction
The notion of maintenance often appears in the AI literature in the context of agent behavior and planning. In this paper, we argue that earlier characterizations of the notion of...
Chitta Baral, Thomas Eiter, Marcus Bjäreland,...
ALMOB
2008
85views more  ALMOB 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Noisy: Identification of problematic columns in multiple sequence alignments
Motivation: Sequence-based methods for phylogenetic reconstruction from (nucleic acid) sequence data are notoriously plagued by two effects: homoplasies and alignment errors. Larg...
Andreas W. M. Dress, Christoph Flamm, Guido Fritzs...