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IJCAI
2003
15 years 8 months ago
In the quest of the best form of local consistency for Weighted CSP
The weighted CSP (WCSP) framework is a soft constraint framework with a wide range of applications. In this paper, we consider the problem of maintaining local consistency during ...
Javier Larrosa, Thomas Schiex
UAI
2003
15 years 8 months ago
Web-Based Question Answering: A Decision-Making Perspective
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...
EOR
2008
119views more  EOR 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
A General Vehicle Routing Problem
In this paper we study a rich vehicle routing problem incorporating various complexities found in real-life applications. The General Vehicle Routing Problem (GVRP) is a combined ...
Asvin Goel, Volker Gruhn
VTC
2010
IEEE
178views Communications» more  VTC 2010»
15 years 5 months ago
Nonparametric Belief Propagation Based on Spanning Trees for Cooperative Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
—Nonparametric belief propagation (NBP) is one of the best-known methods for cooperative localization in sensor networks. It is capable to provide information about location esti...
Vladimir Savic, Santiago Zazo
ICPR
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Efficient Polygonal Approximation of Digital Curves via Monte Carlo Optimization
A novel stochastic searching scheme based on the Monte Carlo optimization is presented for polygonal approximation (PA) problem. We propose to combine the split-and-merge based lo...
Xiuzhuang Zhou, Yao Lu