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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Qualitative robot localisation using information from cast shadows
— Recently, cognitive psychologists and others have turned their attention to the formerly neglected study of shadows, and the information they purvey. These studies show that th...
Paulo Santos, Hannah M. Dee, Valquiria Fenelon
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Discovering Tutorial Dialogue Strategies with Hidden Markov Models
Identifying effective tutorial strategies is a key problem for tutorial dialogue systems research. Ongoing work in human-human tutorial dialogue continues to reveal the complex phe...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eunyoung Ha, Michael D. Wa...
MIDDLEWARE
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Rhizoma: A Runtime for Self-deploying, Self-managing Overlays
Abstract. The trend towards cloud and utility computing infrastructures raises challenges not only for application development, but also for management: diverse resources, changing...
Qin Yin, Adrian Schüpbach, Justin Cappos, And...
SOUPS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Conditioned-safe ceremonies and a user study of an application to web authentication
We introduce the notion of a conditioned-safe ceremony. A “ceremony” is similar to the conventional notion of a protocol, except that a ceremony explicitly includes human part...
Chris Karlof, J. D. Tygar, David Wagner
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Convex hull based approach for multi-oriented character recognition from graphical documents
In this paper, we present a scheme towards recognition of English character in multi-scale and multi-oriented environments. Graphical document such as map consists of text lines w...
Partha Pratim Roy, Umapada Pal, Josep Lladó...