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Deploying Affect-Inspired Mechanisms to Enhance Agent Decision-Making and Communication
(2012-12-20)
Computer agents are required to make appropriate decisions quickly and efficiently. As the environments in which they act become increasingly complex, efficient decision-making becomes significantly more challenging. This ...
Coordinated Resource Management in Networked Embedded Systems
(2012-11-06)
This dissertation shows that with simple programming abstractions, network-wide resource coordination is efficient and useful for programming embedded sensor networks. Existing systems have focused primarily on managing ...
Models of Visual Appearance for Analyzing and Editing Images and Videos
(2012-08-15)
The visual appearance of an image is a complex function of factors such as scene geometry, material reflectances and textures, illumination, and the properties of the camera used to capture the image. Understanding how ...
Framing Human-Robot Task Communication as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process
(2012-08-10)
As general purpose robots become more capable, pre-programming of all tasks at the factory will become less practical. We would like for non-technical human owners to be able to communicate, through interaction with their ...
Content-Aware Manipulations for Image and Video Collections
(2012-08-17)
Digital photography and videography have become ubiquitous. With ever-cheaper and
more capable cameras, found in dedicated devices and, increasingly, in multipurpose
smartphones and tablets, it is now easier than ever ...
Probabilistic Algorithms for Information and Technology Flows in the Networks
(2012-10-16)
This thesis studies several probabilistic algorithms for information and technology flow in the networks. Information flow refers to the circulation of information in social or communication networks for the purpose of ...
Computational Environment Design
(2012-10-26)
The Internet has evolved into a platform on which large numbers of individuals take action and join in collaborations via crowdsourcing, social media, and electronic commerce. When designing social and economic systems on ...
Computational Questions in Evolution
(2012-10-23)
Darwin's theory (1859) proposes that evolution progresses by the survival of those individuals in the population that have greater fitness. Modern understanding of Darwinian evolution is that variation in phenotype, or ...