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ATAL
2004
Springer
16 years 1 days ago
Teaching and Working with Robots as a Collaboration
New applications for autonomous robots bring them into the human environment where they are to serve as helpful assistants to untrained users in the home or office, or work as ca...
Cynthia Breazeal, Guy Hoffman, Andrea Lockerd
SIGGRAPH
2010
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Terrain-adaptive bipedal locomotion control
We describe a framework for the automatic synthesis of biped locomotion controllers that adapt to uneven terrain at run-time. The framework consists of two components: a per-foots...
Jia-chi Wu, Zoran Popovic
ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A swarm based approximated algorithm to the extended generalized assignment problem (E-GAP)
This paper addresses distributed task allocation in complex scenarios modeled using the distributed constraint optimization problem (DCOP) formalism. We propose and evaluate a nov...
Paulo Roberto Ferreira Jr., Felipe S. Boffo, Ana L...
SIROCCO
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Sharpness: A Tight Condition for Scalability
: A distributed system is scalable if the rate at which it completes its computation and communication tasks does not depend on its size. As an example, the scalability of a peer-t...
Augustin Chaintreau
COGSCI
2004
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15 years 6 months ago
Making the ineffable explicit: estimating the information employed for face classifications
When we look at a face, we readily perceive that person's gender, expression, identity, age, and attractiveness. Perceivers as well as scientists have hitherto had little suc...
Michael C. Mangini, Irving Biederma