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CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Springer
When harvesting collective intelligence, a user wishes to maximize the accuracy and value of the acquired information without spending too much time collecting it. We empirically ...
ICC
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
—The multi-source and single-sink (MSSS) topology, in wireless sensor networks, is defined as the network topology, where all of nodes can gather, receive and transmit data to t...
DATE
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1999
IEEE
In this paper, we consider the problem of maximizing the battery life (or duration of service) in battery-powered CMOS circuits. We first show that the battery efficiency (or utili...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Springer
We propose a unified framework for deriving and studying soft-in soft-out (SISO) detection in multiple-access channels using the concept of variational inference. The proposed fram...
JETAI
2002
13 years 7 months ago
2002
We study decision-theoretic planning or reinforcement learning in the presence of traps such as steep slopes for outdoor robots or staircases for indoor robots. In this case, achi...