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ISER
2004
Springer
182views Robotics» more  ISER 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Nonholonomic Modeling of Needle Steering
As a flexible needle with a bevel tip is pushed through soft tissue, the asymmetry of the tip causes the needle to bend. We propose that, by using nonholonomic kinematics, contro...
Robert J. Webster III, Noah J. Cowan, Gregory S. C...
ECCV
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Randomized Locality Sensitive Vocabularies for Bag-of-Features Model
Abstract. Visual vocabulary construction is an integral part of the popular Bag-of-Features (BOF) model. When visual data scale up (in terms of the dimensionality of features or/an...
LICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Labelled Markov Processes: Stronger and Faster Approximations
This paper reports on and discusses three notions of approximation for Labelled Markov Processes that have been developed last year. The three schemes are improvements over former...
Vincent Danos, Josee Desharnais
SIGMETRICS
2003
ACM
131views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2003»
14 years 27 days ago
Classifying scheduling policies with respect to unfairness in an M/GI/1
It is common to evaluate scheduling policies based on their mean response times. Another important, but sometimes opposing, performance metric is a scheduling policy’s fairness....
Adam Wierman, Mor Harchol-Balter
GECCO
2003
Springer
108views Optimization» more  GECCO 2003»
14 years 26 days ago
Sexual Selection of Co-operation
Advocates of sexual selection theory have argued that various male traits, such as male co-operative behavior towards females, can evolve through female preference for mating with ...
Muhammad Afzal Upal