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AAAI
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Towards an Integrated Robot with Multiple Cognitive Functions
We present integration mechanisms for combining heterogeneous components in a situated information processing system, illustrated by a cognitive robot able to collaborate with a h...
Nick Hawes, Aaron Sloman, Jeremy Wyatt, Michael Zi...
EVOW
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Improving Metaheuristic Performance by Evolving a Variable Fitness Function
In this paper we study a complex real world workforce scheduling problem. We apply constructive search and variable neighbourhood search (VNS) metaheuristics and enhance these meth...
Keshav P. Dahal, Stephen Remde, Peter I. Cowling, ...
ATMOS
2008
187views Optimization» more  ATMOS 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Solving Periodic Timetable Optimisation Problems by Modulo Simplex Calculations
In the last 15 years periodic timetable problems have found much interest in the combinatorial optimization community. We will focus on the optimisation task to minimise a weighted...
Karl Nachtigall, Jens Opitz
CAINE
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Interactive Thin Shells - A Model Interface for the Analysis of Physically-based Animation
Realism has always been a goal in computer graphics. However, the algorithms involved in mimicking ical world are often complex, abstract, and sensitive to changes in experimental...
James Skorupski, Zoë J. Wood, Alex Pang
ICWN
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Sensor Network Lab Exercises Using TinyOS and MicaZ Motes, Part II
Abstract MIT Technology Review lists sensor networks as one of “Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World” [1]. This paper extends our earlier paper [7], and describ...
Jens Mache, Elgin Dean, Kevin Imber