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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Modeling assembled-MEMS microrobots for wireless magnetic control
— Capitalizing on advances in CMOS and MEMS technologies, microrobots have the potential to dramatically change many aspects of medicine by navigating bodily fluids to perform t...
Zoltán Nagy, Olgaç Ergeneman, Jake J...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
150views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
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Rigorously Bayesian range finder sensor model for dynamic environments
— This paper proposes and experimentally validates a Bayesian network model of a range finder adapted to dynamic environments. The modeling rigorously explains all model assumpt...
Tinne De Laet, Joris De Schutter, Herman Bruyninck...
ICDM
2008
IEEE
120views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2008»
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Predicting Future Decision Trees from Evolving Data
Recognizing and analyzing change is an important human virtue because it enables us to anticipate future scenarios and thus allows us to act pro-actively. One approach to understa...
Mirko Böttcher, Martin Spott, Rudolf Kruse
ICDM
2008
IEEE
112views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2008»
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Supervised Inductive Learning with Lotka-Volterra Derived Models
We present a classification algorithm built on our adaptation of the Generalized Lotka-Volterra model, well-known in mathematical ecology. The training algorithm itself consists ...
Karen Hovsepian, Peter Anselmo, Subhasish Mazumdar
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A top-down auditory attention model for learning task dependent influences on prominence detection in speech
A top-down task-dependent model guides attention to likely target locations in cluttered scenes. Here, a novel biologically plausible top-down auditory attention model is presente...
Ozlem Kalinli, Shrikanth S. Narayanan
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Name-aware speech recognition for interactive question answering
In this work we show how interactivity in a voice-enabled question answering application may improve speech recognition. We allow the user to provide a target named entity before ...
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Gökhan Tür, Dilek Z...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Gradient steepness metrics using extended Baum-Welch transformations for universal pattern recognition tasks
In many pattern recognition tasks, given some input data and a family of models, the “best” model is defined as the one which maximizes the likelihood of the data given the m...
Tara N. Sainath, Dimitri Kanevsky, Bhuvana Ramabha...
ICALT
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Designing a Dynamic Bayesian Network for Modeling Students' Learning Styles
When using Learning Object Repositories, it is interesting to have mechanisms to select the more adequate objects for each student. For this kind of adaptation, it is important to...
Cristina Carmona, Gladys Castillo, Eva Millá...
HPDC
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Resource tracking in parallel and distributed applications
In this paper, we introduce the Join-Elect-Leave (JEL) model, a simple yet powerful model for tracking the resources participating in an application. This model is based on the co...
Niels Drost, Rob van Nieuwpoort, Jason Maassen, He...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
108views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
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Free-Riding and Competition in Network Markets for Digital Goods
— We present a continuous, stochastic model — the first of its kind — for the monetary flow in multi-level markets allowing for the quantitative assessment of the incentive...
Andreas U. Schmidt