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2008
Springer
16 years 25 days ago
VUMA: A Visual User Modelling Approach for the Personalisation of Adaptive Systems
Current approaches to explicit user modelling are generally time consuming and tedious for the user. Oftentimes poor usability and overly long questionnaires deter the end user fro...
Melanie B. Späth, Owen Conlan
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
16 years 24 days ago
Soft Finger Model with Adaptive Contact Geometry for Grasping and Manipulation Tasks
This paper presents a method for building analytical contact models for soft fingers. Friction constraints are derived based on general expressions for non-planar contacts of ela...
Matei T. Ciocarlie, Claire Lackner, Peter K. Allen
SASO
2007
IEEE
16 years 22 days ago
Adaptive Self-optimization in Distributed Dynamic Environments
Grid and ubiquitous computing systems generally consist of a large number of networked nodes with applications implemented as distributed services or processes, respectively. A cr...
Wolfgang Trumler, Andreas Pietzowski, Benjamin Sat...
SEMWEB
2007
Springer
16 years 17 days ago
Opportunistic Reasoning for the Semantic Web: Adapting Reasoning to the Environment
Despite the efforts devoted so far, the Semantic Web vision appears to be an eluding target. We propose a paradigm shift for the Semantic Web centred around the pragmatics of deve...
Carlos Pedrinaci, Tim Smithers, Amaia Bernaras
GECCO
2005
Springer
147views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
15 years 12 months ago
Adaptive sizing of populations and number of islands in distributed genetic algorithms
Deciding the appropriate population size and number of islands for distributed island-model genetic algorithms is often critical to the algorithm’s success. This paper outlines ...
Johan Berntsson, Maolin Tang