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COMPGEOM
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Zigzag persistent homology and real-valued functions
We study the problem of computing zigzag persistence of a sequence of homology groups and study a particular sequence derived from the levelsets of a real-valued function on a top...
Gunnar Carlsson, Vin de Silva, Dmitriy Morozov
EICS
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Engineering crowd interaction within smart environments
Smart environments (e.g., airports, hospitals, stadiums, and other physical spaces using ubiquitous computing to empower many mobile people) provide novel challenges for usability...
Michael D. Harrison, Mieke Massink, Diego Latella
RECSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Regret-based optimal recommendation sets in conversational recommender systems
Current conversational recommender systems are unable to offer guarantees on the quality of their recommendations due to a lack of principled user utility models. We develop an ap...
Paolo Viappiani, Craig Boutilier
CDC
2008
IEEE
143views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
A nonlinear, control-oriented model for ionic polymer-metal composite actuators
Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) form an important category of electroactive polymers and have many potential applications in biomedical, robotic and micro/nano manipulation ...
Zheng Chen, Dawn R. Hedgepeth, Xiaobo Tan
CDC
2008
IEEE
117views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
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Event-based optimization for dispatching policies in material handling systems of general assembly lines
—A material handling (MH) system of a general assembly line dispatching parts from inventory to working buffers could be complicated and costly to operate. Generally it is extrem...
Yanjia Zhao, Qianchuan Zhao, Qing-Shan Jia, Xiaoho...