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AFRIGRAPH
2001
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Exploiting coherence of shadow rays
We present independent method to reduce the number of shadow ray tests. It can be used with standard acceleration ray tracing algorithms. Our method is conservative and produces t...
Andrzej Lukaszewski
WSC
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Decision Tree Module Within Decision Support Simulation System
Decision trees are one of the most easy to use tools in decision analysis. Problems where decision tree branches are based on random variables have not received much attention. Th...
Mohamed Moussa, Janaka Y. Ruwanpura, George Jergea...
NIPS
2003
15 years 8 months ago
Auction Mechanism Design for Multi-Robot Coordination
The design of cooperative multi-robot systems is a highly active research area in robotics. Two lines of research in particular have generated interest: the solution of large, wea...
Curt A. Bererton, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Sebastian Th...
AAAI
1998
15 years 8 months ago
Procedural Help in Andes: Generating Hints Using a Bayesian Network Student Model
One of the most important problems for an intelligent tutoring system is deciding how to respond when a student asks for help. Responding cooperatively requires an understanding o...
Abigail S. Gertner, Cristina Conati, Kurt VanLehn
UAI
2003
15 years 8 months ago
An Importance Sampling Algorithm Based on Evidence Pre-propagation
Precision achieved by stochastic sampling algorithms for Bayesian networks typically deteriorates in face of extremely unlikely evidence. To address this problem, we propose the E...
Changhe Yuan, Marek J. Druzdzel