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NIPS
1993
13 years 11 months ago
Using Local Trajectory Optimizers to Speed Up Global Optimization in Dynamic Programming
Dynamic programming provides a methodology to develop planners and controllers for nonlinear systems. However, general dynamic programming is computationally intractable. We have ...
Christopher G. Atkeson
GISCIENCE
2010
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Microtheories for Spatial Data Infrastructures - Accounting for Diversity of Local Conceptualizations at a Global Level
The categorization of our environment into feature types is an essential prerequisite for cartography, geographic information retrieval, routing applications, spatial decision supp...
Stephanie Duce, Krzysztof Janowicz
ICDE
2012
IEEE
240views Database» more  ICDE 2012»
12 years 17 days ago
Approximate Shortest Distance Computing: A Query-Dependent Local Landmark Scheme
—Shortest distance query between two nodes is a fundamental operation in large-scale networks. Most existing methods in the literature take a landmark embedding approach, which s...
Miao Qiao, Hong Cheng, Lijun Chang, Jeffrey Xu Yu
HEURISTICS
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
A local linear embedding module for evolutionary computation optimization
A Local Linear Embedding (LLE) module enhances the performance of two Evolutionary Computation (EC) algorithms employed as search tools in global optimization problems. The LLE em...
Fabio Boschetti
VLDB
1997
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
The Network as a Global Database: Challenges of Interoperability, Proactivity, Interactiveness, Legacy
The current integrated developments in network and computing give rise to a technical infrastructure for the information society which one may variously circumscribe by terms such...
Peter C. Lockemann, Ulrike Kölsch, Arne Kosch...