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SIGMOD
2001
ACM
136views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
14 years 10 months ago
Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models
Estimating the result size of complex queries that involve selection on multiple attributes and the join of several relations is a difficult but fundamental task in database query...
Lise Getoor, Benjamin Taskar, Daphne Koller
ICRA
2008
IEEE
150views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
A Bayesian approach to empirical local linearization for robotics
— Local linearizations are ubiquitous in the control of robotic systems. Analytical methods, if available, can be used to obtain the linearization, but in complex robotics system...
Jo-Anne Ting, Aaron D'Souza, Sethu Vijayakumar, St...
COMPGEOM
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Envelope surfaces
We construct a class of envelope surfaces in Rd , more precisely envelopes of balls. An envelope surface is a closed C1 (tangent continuous) manifold wrapping tightly around the u...
Nico Kruithof, Gert Vegter
CIG
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Forcing Neurocontrollers to Exploit Sensory Symmetry Through Hard-wired Modularity in the Game of Cellz
Several attempts have been made in the past to construct encoding schemes that allow modularity to emerge in evolving systems, but success is limited. We believe that in order to c...
Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas
APLAS
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Integrating Physical Systems in the Static Analysis of Embedded Control Software
Interpretation interpretation is a theory of effective abstraction and/or approximation of discrete mathematical structures as found in the semantics of programming languages, mod...
Patrick Cousot