AI
2011
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2011
Springer
The ability to achieve one’s goals is a defining characteristic of intelligent behaviour. A great many existing theories, systems and research programmes address the problems a...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Springer
We investigate optimal routing and scheduling strategies for multi-hop wireless networks with rateless codes. Rateless codes allow each node of the network to accumulate mutual in...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Springer
We consider deployment problems where a mobile robotic network must optimize its configuration in a distributed way in order to minimize a steady-state cost function that depends ...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Springer
We explore the intricate interdependent relationship among counting problems, considered from three frameworks for such problems: Holant Problems, counting CSP and weighted H-color...
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2010
IEEE
Extremal optimisation (EO) is a relatively recent nature-inspired heuristic whose search method is especially suitable to solve combinatorial optimisation problems. To date, most o...
AMAI
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Springer
Constraints and quantitative preferences, or costs, are very useful for modelling many real-life problems. However, in many settings, it is difficult to specify precise preference ...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 days ago
2009
IEEE
Field testing of a software application prior to general release is an important and essential quality assurance step. Field testing helps identify unforeseen problems. Extensive ...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 days ago
2009
IEEE
The Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is a popular tool in statistical estimation problems involving incomplete data or in problems which can be posed in a similar form, suc...
ICCV
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
2009
IEEE
A fundamental problem in computer vision (CV) is the estimation of geometric parameters from multiple observations obtained from images; examples of such problems range from ellip...
ICCV
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
2009
IEEE
We describe an energy minimization algorithm for functions defined on 4-connected lattices, of the type usually encountered in problems involving images. Such functions are often ...