Indiana State University is providing handheld computers to every faculty member in its School of Education. What started as a small pilot program a year ago has grown into a proj...
We consider typical manipulation tasks in terms of a service robot framework. Given a task at hand, such as ”Pick up the cup from the dinner table”, we present a number of diff...
The mixing properties of several Markov chains to sample from configurations of a hard-core model have been examined. The model is familiar in the statistical physics of the liqui...
Abstract— We propose an asynchronous island-model algorithm distribution framework and test the popular Differential Evolution algorithm performance when a few processors are ava...
As the Extensible Markup Language (XML) rapidly establishes itself as the de facto standard for presenting, storing, and exchanging data on the Internet, large volume of XML data ...