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2008
13 years 9 months ago
Bidding Strategies for Realistic Multi-Unit Sealed-Bid Auctions
When autonomous agents decide on their bidding strategies in real world auctions, they have a number of concerns that go beyond the models that are normally analyzed in traditiona...
Ioannis A. Vetsikas, Nicholas R. Jennings
AAAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Learning Grasp Strategies with Partial Shape Information
We consider the problem of grasping novel objects in cluttered environments. If a full 3-d model of the scene were available, one could use the model to estimate the stability and...
Ashutosh Saxena, Lawson L. S. Wong, Andrew Y. Ng
AAAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Multimodal People Detection and Tracking in Crowded Scenes
This paper presents a novel people detection and tracking method based on a multi-modal sensor fusion approach that utilizes 2D laser range and camera data. The data points in the...
Luciano Spinello, Rudolph Triebel, Roland Siegwart
AAAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient Optimization of Information-Theoretic Exploration in SLAM
We present a novel method for information-theoretic exploration, leveraging recent work on mapping and localization. We describe exploration as the constrained optimization proble...
Thomas Kollar, Nicholas Roy
AAAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Phase Transitions and Complexity of Weighted Satisfiability and Other Intractable Parameterized Problems
The study of random instances of NP complete and coNP complete problems has had much impact on our understanding of the nature of hard problems. In this work, we initiate an effor...
Yong Gao