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2004
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
Situations, Si! Situation Terms, No!
The situation calculus, as proposed by McCarthy and Hayes, and developed over the last decade by Reiter and co-workers, is reconsidered. A new logical variant is proposed that cap...
Gerhard Lakemeyer, Hector J. Levesque
SFM
2004
Springer
120views Formal Methods» more  SFM 2004»
16 years 4 days ago
Timed Process Algebra (With a Focus on Explicit Termination and Relative-Timing)
We treat theory and application of timed process algebra. We focus on a variant that uses explicit termination and action prefixing. This variant has some advantages over other va...
Jos C. M. Baeten, Michel A. Reniers
PERCOM
2003
ACM
16 years 2 days ago
Recognition of Human Activity through Hierarchical Stochastic Learning
Seeking to extend the functional capability of the elderly, we explore the use of probabilistic methods to learn and recognise human activity in order to provide monitoring suppor...
Sebastian Lühr, Hung Hai Bui, Svetha Venkates...
PG
2003
IEEE
16 years 2 days ago
Simulating Wax Crayons
We present a physically-inspired model of wax crayons, which synthesizes drawings from collections of userspecified strokes. Paper is represented by a height-field texture, and ...
Dave Rudolf, David Mould, Eric Neufeld
DSOM
2003
Springer
16 years 1 days ago
On the Algebraic Structure of Convergence
Abstract. Current self-healing systems are built from “convergent” actions that only make repairs when necessary. Using an algebraic model of system administration, we challeng...
Alva L. Couch, Yizhan Sun