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Agent Organization in the Knowledge Plane
(2008-06-11)
In designing and building a network like the Internet, we continue to face the problems of scale and distribution. With the dramatic expansion in scale and heterogeneity of the Internet, network management has become an ...
The SoftPHY Abstraction: from Packets to Symbols in Wireless Network Design
(2008-06-03)
At ever-increasing rates, we are using wireless systems to communicatewith others and retrieve content of interest to us. Current wirelesstechnologies such as WiFi or Zigbee use forward error correction todrive bit error ...
Ignorable Information in Multi-Agent Scenarios
(2008-05-12)
In some multi-agent scenarios, identifying observations that an agent can safely ignore reduces exponentially the size of the agent's strategy space and hence the time required to find a Nash equilibrium. We consider games ...
On a model of visual cortex: learning invariance and selectivity
(2008-04-04)
In this paper we present a class of algorithms for similarity learning on spaces of images. The general framework that we introduce is motivated by some well-known hierarchical pre-processing architectures for object ...
Gesture in Automatic Discourse Processing
(2008-05-07)
Computers cannot fully understand spoken language without access to the wide range of modalities that accompany speech. This thesis addresses the particularly expressive modality of hand gesture, and focuses on building ...
Non-Metrical Navigation Through Visual Path Control
(2008-06-06)
We describe a new method for wide-area, non-metrical robot navigationwhich enables useful, purposeful motion indoors. Our method has twophases: a training phase, in which a human user directs a wheeledrobot with an attached ...
Fast concurrent object classification and localization
(2008-06-10)
Object localization and classification are important problems incomputer vision. However, in many applications, exhaustive searchover all class labels and image locations is computationallyprohibitive. While several methods ...
Resilient Knowledge-Based Mechanisms For Truly Combinatorial Auctions (And Implementation in Surviving Strategies)
(2008-10-08)
We put forward a new mechanism achieving a high benchmark for (both revenue and) the sum of revenue and efficiency in truly combinatorial auctions. Notably, our mechanism guarantees its performance (1) in a very adversarial ...
MOOS-IvP Autonomy Tools Users Manual
(2008-11-11)
This document describes seven common MOOS-IvP autonomy tools. The uHelmScope application provides a run-time scoping window into the state of an active IvP Helm executing its mission. The pMarineViewer application is a ...
Resilient Provision of a Public and/or Private Good, or: Resilient Auctions of One Good in Unlimited Supply
(2008-12-02)
We present two resilient mechanisms: the first for the provision of a public good, and the second for the provision of a private good. Both mechanisms adopt a knowledge-based benchmark.