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AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Online Learning of Uneven Terrain for Humanoid Bipedal Walking
We present a novel method to control a biped humanoid robot to walk on unknown inclined terrains, using an online learning algorithm to estimate in real-time the local terrain fro...
Seung-Joon Yi, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Daniel D. Lee
AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Diversifying Query Suggestion Results
In order to improve the user search experience, Query Suggestion, a technique for generating alternative queries to Web users, has become an indispensable feature for commercial s...
Hao Ma, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King
AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
News Recommendation in Forum-Based Social Media
Self-publication of news on Web sites is becoming a common application platform to enable more engaging interaction among users. Discussion in the form of comments following news ...
Jia Wang, Qing Li, Yuanzhu Peter Chen, Jiafen Liu,...
AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Accounting Mechanisms for Distributed Work Systems
In distributed work systems, individual users perform work for other users. A significant challenge in these systems is to provide proper incentives for users to contribute as muc...
Sven Seuken, Jie Tang, David C. Parkes
AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
g-Planner: Real-time Motion Planning and Global Navigation using GPUs
We present novel randomized algorithms for solving global motion planning problems that exploit the computational capabilities of many-core GPUs. Our approach uses thread and data...
Jia Pan, Christian Lauterbach, Dinesh Manocha
AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Derivation of Finite-State Machines for Behavior Control
Finite-state controllers represent an effective action selection mechanisms widely used in domains such as video-games and mobile robotics. In contrast to the policies obtained fr...
Blai Bonet, Héctor Palacios, Hector Geffner
AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Can Approximation Circumvent Gibbard-Satterthwaite?
The Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem asserts that any reasonable voting rule cannot be strategyproof. A large body of research in AI deals with circumventing this theorem via computa...
Ariel D. Procaccia
AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Asymmetric Spite in Auctions
In many auctions, agents bid more aggressively than selfinterest would prescribe. This can be explained by spite, where the agent's utility not only increases in the agent�...
Ankit Sharma, Tuomas Sandholm
AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
High-Quality Policies for the Canadian Traveler's Problem
We consider the stochastic variant of the Canadian Traveler's Problem, a path planning problem where adverse weather can cause some roads to be untraversable. The agent does ...
Patrick Eyerich, Thomas Keller, Malte Helmert