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PPSN
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Environment-Driven Embodied Evolution in a Population of Autonomous Agents
This paper is concerned with a fixed-size population of autonomous agents facing unknown, possibly changing, environments. The motivation is to design an embodied evolutionary algo...
Nicolas Bredeche, Jean-Marc Montanier
PROPERTYTESTING
2010
15 years 4 months ago
On Constant Time Approximation of Parameters of Bounded Degree Graphs
How well can the maximum size of an independent set, or the minimum size of a dominating set of a graph in which all degrees are at most d be approximated by a randomized constant...
Noga Alon
SIGDIAL
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Negotiating causal implicatures
In this paper we motivate and describe a dialogue manager which is able to infer and negotiate causal implicatures. A causal implicature is a type of Gricean relation implicature,...
Luciana Benotti, Patrick Blackburn
SODA
2010
ACM
147views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Energy Efficient Scheduling via Partial Shutdown
Motivated by issues of saving energy in data centers we define a collection of new problems referred to as "machine activation" problems. The central framework we introd...
Samir Khuller, Jian Li, Barna Saha
ACL
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Optimizing Word Alignment Combination For Phrase Table Training
Combining word alignments trained in two translation directions has mostly relied on heuristics that are not directly motivated by intended applications. We propose a novel method...
Yonggang Deng, Bowen Zhou