In this paper we address two closely related problems. The first is the object detection problem, i.e., the automatic decision of whether a given image represents a known object o...
This paper discusses the use of cooperation and distributed intelligence within a robot team to solve a maze problem in which a set of ordered control point tasks has to be perform...
The "nearest neighbor" relation, or more generally the "k nearest neighbors" relation, defined for a set of points in a metric space, has found many uses in co...
This paper presents the first polylogarithmic-competitive online algorithms for two-metric network design problems. These problems arise naturally in the design of computer netwo...
In this paper we present a new approach to mining binary data. We treat each binary feature (item) as a means of distinguishing two sets of examples. Our interest is in selecting ...