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Leaderless Distributed Hierarchy Formation
(2002-12-01)
I present a system for robust leaderless organization of an amorphous network into hierarchical clusters. This system, which assumes that nodes are spatially embedded and can only talk to neighbors within a given radius, ...
Design and Control of an Anthropomorphic Robotic Finger with Multi-point Tactile Sensation
(2001-05-01)
The goal of this research is to develop the prototype of a tactile sensing platform for anthropomorphic manipulation research. We investigate this problem through the fabrication and simple control of a planar 2-DOF robotic ...
Improving Multi-class Text Classification with Naive Bayes
(2001-09-01)
There are numerous text documents available in electronic form. More and more are becoming available every day. Such documents represent a massive amount of information that is easily accessible. Seeking value in this huge ...
The Architect's Collaborator: Toward Intelligent Tools for Conceptual Design
(2001-01-01)
In early stages of architectural design, as in other design domains, the language used is often very abstract. In architectural design, for example, architects and their clients use experiential terms such as "private" ...
Predicate Dispatching in the Common Lisp Object System
(2001-05-01)
I have added support for predicate dispatching, a powerful generalization of other dispatching mechanisms, to the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). To demonstrate its utility, I used predicate dispatching to enhance Weyl, ...
Object Recognition with Pictorial Structures
(2001-05-01)
This thesis presents a statistical framework for object recognition. The framework is motivated by the pictorial structure models introduced by Fischler and Elschlager nearly 30 years ago. The basic idea is to model an ...
Learning Commonsense Categorical Knowledge in a Thread Memory System
(2004-05-18)
If we are to understand how we can build machines capable of broad purpose learning and reasoning, we must first aim to build systems that can represent, acquire, and reason about the kinds of commonsense knowledge that ...
Building Grounded Abstractions for Artificial Intelligence Programming
(2004-06-16)
Most Artificial Intelligence (AI) work can be characterized as either ``high-level'' (e.g., logical, symbolic) or ``low-level'' (e.g., connectionist networks, behavior-based robotics). Each approach suffers from particular ...
Generative Temporal Planning with Complex Processes
(2004-05-18)
Autonomous vehicles are increasingly being used in mission-critical applications, and robust methods are needed for controlling these inherently unreliable and complex systems. This thesis advocates the use of model-based ...
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 ...