It is well known that the performance of quicksort can be improved by selecting the median of a sample of elements as the pivot of each partitioning stage. For large samples the pa...
Large-scale parallel dataflow systems, e.g., Dryad and Map-Reduce, have attracted significant attention recently. High-level dataflow languages such as Pig Latin and Sawzall are b...
Christopher Olston, Benjamin Reed, Adam Silberstei...
A natural language generation system must generate expressions that allow a reader to identify the entities to which they refer. This paper describes the creation of referring-exp...
Jill Nickerson, Stuart M. Shieber, Barbara J. Gros...
Mobile robots often rely upon systems that render sensor data and perceptual features into costs that can be used in a planner. The behavior that a designer wishes the planner to ...
Nathan D. Ratliff, J. Andrew Bagnell, Martin Zinke...
For artificial entities to achieve high degrees of autonomy they will need to display appropriate adaptability. In this sense adaptability includes representational flexibility gu...