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ICRA
2007
IEEE
180views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Mechanical design of a new pneumatically driven underactuated hand
—This paper presents a new pneumatically driven underactuated hand with two fingers and 3 phalanxes per finger. Two evidences have led the design of this hand. Firstly, the use o...
Vincent Begoc, Sébastien Krut, Etienne Domb...
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
143views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
14 years 29 days ago
Differential-revelation VCG mechanisms for combinatorial auctions
Combinatorial auctions, where bidders can submit bids on bundles of items, are economically efficient mechanisms for selling items to bidders, and are attractive when the bidders...
Wolfram Conen, Tuomas Sandholm
GECCO
2003
Springer
283views Optimization» more  GECCO 2003»
14 years 28 days ago
A Game-Theoretic Memory Mechanism for Coevolution
One problem associated with coevolutionary algorithms is that of forgetting, where one or more previously acquired traits are lost only to be needed later. We introduce a new coevo...
Sevan G. Ficici, Jordan B. Pollack
SAGT
2009
Springer
108views Game Theory» more  SAGT 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
On the Planner's Loss Due to Lack of Information in Bayesian Mechanism Design
In this paper we study a large class of resource allocation problems with an important complication, the utilization cost of a given resource is private information of a profit ma...
José R. Correa, Nicolas Figueroa
GECCO
2007
Springer
181views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Exploring selection mechanisms for an agent-based distributed evolutionary algorithm
In this paper we propose an agent-based model of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) which extends seamlessly from concurrent single-host to distributed multi-host installations. Since ...
A. E. Eiben, Marc Schoenauer, Juan Luís Jim...