Just as actions can have indirect effects on the state of the world, so too can sensing actions have indirect effects on an agent's state of knowledge. In this paper, we inve...
The Dantzig selector is a near ideal estimator for recovery of sparse signals from linear measurements in the presence of noise. It is a convex optimization problem which can be r...
On-board diagnostic systems play an important role in the current generation of cars and will play an increasingly important role in the next future. The design of on-board diagno...
Facility location problems have always been studied with the assumption that the edge lengths in the network are static and do not change over time. The underlyingnetwork could be ...
This a summary of the author's PhD thesis supervised by Leo Liberti, Philippe Baptiste and Daniel Krob and defended on 18 June 2009 at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. ...