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DAGSTUHL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
The Need to Adapt and Its Implications for Embodiment
We present the hypothesis that an important factor for the choice of a particular embodiment for a natural or artificial agent is the effect of the embodiment on the agent’s ab...
Lukas Lichtensteiger
IROS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
HybridExploration: A distributed approach to terrain exploration using mobile and fixed sensor nodes
— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...
Ettore Ferranti, Niki Trigoni, Mark Levene
ICDE
2005
IEEE
115views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
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Snapshot Queries: Towards Data-Centric Sensor Networks
In this paper we introduce the idea of snapshot queries for energy efficient data acquisition in sensor networks. Network nodes generate models of their surrounding environment th...
Yannis Kotidis
UAI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Improving Gradient Estimation by Incorporating Sensor Data
An efficient policy search algorithm should estimate the local gradient of the objective function, with respect to the policy parameters, from as few trials as possible. Whereas m...
Gregory Lawrence, Stuart J. Russell
TSMC
2011
355views more  TSMC 2011»
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Particle Swarm Optimization in Wireless-Sensor Networks: A Brief Survey
—Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are networks of autonomous nodes used for monitoring an environment. Developers of WSNs face challenges that arise from communication link failur...
Raghavendra V. Kulkarni, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy