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Organizing a Global Coordinate System from Local Information on an Amorphous Computer
(1999-08-29)
This paper demonstrates that it is possible to generate a reasonably accurate coordinate system on randomly distributed processors, using only local information and local communication. By coordinate systems we imply ...
Trans-membrane Signal Transduction and Biochemical Turing Pattern Formation
(1999-09-28)
The Turing mechanism for the production of a broken spatial symmetry in an initially homogeneous system of reacting and diffusing substances has attracted much interest as a potential model for certain aspects of ...
Amorphous Computing
(1999-08-29)
Amorphous computing is the development of organizational principles and programming languages for obtaining coherent behaviors from the cooperation of myriads of unreliable parts that are interconnected in unknown, ...
Boosting Image Database Retrieval
(1999-09-10)
We present an approach for image database retrieval using a very large number of highly-selective features and simple on-line learning. Our approach is predicated on the assumption that each image is generated by a ...
A Note on the Generalization Performance of Kernel Classifiers with Margin
(2000-05-01)
We present distribution independent bounds on the generalization misclassification performance of a family of kernel classifiers with margin. Support Vector Machine classifiers (SVM) stem out of this class of machines. The ...
A Note on Object Class Representation and Categorical Perception
(1999-12-17)
We present a novel scheme ("Categorical Basis Functions", CBF) for object class representation in the brain and contrast it to the "Chorus of Prototypes" scheme recently proposed by Edelman. The power and flexibility ...
Learning from Incomplete Data
(1995-01-24)
Real-world learning tasks often involve high-dimensional data sets with complex patterns of missing features. In this paper we review the problem of learning from incomplete data from two statistical perspectives---the ...
Cooperative Physics of Fly Swarms: An Emergent Behavior
(1995-04-11)
We have simulated the behavior of several artificial flies, interacting visually with each other. Each fly is described by a simple tracking system (Poggio and Reichardt, 1973; Land and Collett, 1974) which summarizes ...
Three-Dimensional Correspondence
(1998-12-01)
This paper describes the problem of three-dimensional object correspondence and presents an algorithm for matching two three-dimensional colored surfaces using polygon reduction and the minimization of an energy function. ...
A Security Kernel Based on the Lambda-Calculus
(1996-03-13)
Cooperation between independent agents depends upon establishing adegree of security. Each of the cooperating agents needs assurance that the cooperation will not endanger resources of value to that agent. In a computer ...