This paper describes Icarus, an agent architecture that embeds a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm within a language for specifying agent behavior. An Icarus program e...
Abstract. The paper describes a three-layer video coder based on spatiotemporal scalability and data partitioning. The base layer represents video sequences with reduced spatial an...
Abstract. Clinical requirements for quick accessibility to reputable, up-todate information have increased the importance of web accessible digital libraries for this user communit...
Abstract. When parallelizing hierarchical view frustum culling and collision detection, the low computation cost per node and the fact that the traversal path through the tree stru...
Most queries to text search engines are ranked or Boolean. Phrase querying is a powerful technique for refining searches, but is expensive to implement on conventional indexes. I...