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HPDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A statistical approach to risk mitigation in computational markets
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...
Thomas Sandholm, Kevin Lai
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Greedy is Good: On Service Tree Placement for In-Network Stream Processing
This paper is concerned with reducing communication costs when executing distributed user tasks in a sensor network. We take a service-oriented abstraction of sensor networks, whe...
Zoë Abrams, Jie Liu
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
An Integrated Approach to Inverse Kinematics and Path Planning for Redundant Manipulators
— We propose a novel solution to the problem of inverse kinematics for redundant robotic manipulators for the purposes of goal selection for path planning. We unify the calculati...
Dominik Bertram, James Kuffner, Rüdiger Dillm...
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Who's asking for help?: a Bayesian approach to intelligent assistance
Automated software customization is drawing increasing attention as a means to help users deal with the scope, complexity, potential intrusiveness, and ever-changing nature of mod...
Bowen Hui, Craig Boutilier
FOCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
How to Pay, Come What May: Approximation Algorithms for Demand-Robust Covering Problems
Robust optimization has traditionally focused on uncertainty in data and costs in optimization problems to formulate models whose solutions will be optimal in the worstcase among ...
Kedar Dhamdhere, Vineet Goyal, R. Ravi, Mohit Sing...