Utility elicitation is a critical function of any automated decision aid, allowing decisions to be tailored to the preferences of a specific user. However, the size and complexit...
In the independent component analysis, polynomial functions of higher order statistics are often used as cost functions. However, such cost functions usually have many local minim...
Pervasive robotics will require, in a near future, small, light and cheap robots that exhibit complex behaviors. These demands led to the development of the M2-M4 Macaco project -...
A Natural Language Interface for Databases allows users of multimedia kiosks to formulate natural language questions. User questions are first translated into a logic language and ...
Web-based data sources, particularly in Life Sciences, grow in diversity and volume. Most of the data collections are equipped with common document search, hyperlink and retrieval...
Stephan Heymann, Katja Tham, Axel Kilian, Gunnar W...