Acquiring momentum: simple strategies by simple objects

Simple stimuli, simple strategies.

Simple Keys for Simple Smart Objects

During recent years, a working infrastructure for the Internet of Things (IoT, [1]) has evolved. This eco-system of networked devices is based on inexpensive but powerful hardware: microcontroller chips with low-power RF transmitters for licensefree frequency bands, sufficient memory, and enough I/O ports to attach sensors and actuators. Moreover, various technical bodies have cooperated to fos...

Searching Objects in Known Environments: Empowering Simple Heuristic Strategies

We consider the problem of exploring a known structured environment to find an object with a mobile robot. We proposed a novel heuristic-based strategy for reducing the traveled distance by first obtaining an exploration order of the rooms in the environment and then, searching for the object in each room by positioning the robot through a set of viewpoints. For the exploration order we propose...

Complex Objects Made Simple

This paper describes the interaction and object representation features of the visual database editor ESCHER which is based on the nested relational data model. In particular we like to indicate the multiple two-dimensional cursors and their way of moving in and out of nested objects, cut-and-paste operations, the QBE-like query mechanism, interactive schema design, and the unusual, self-refere...

X Simple Auctions with Simple Strategies

We introduce single-bid auctions as a new format for combinatorial auctions. In single-bid auctions, each bidder submits a single real-valued bid for the right to buy items at a fixed price. Contrary to other simple auction formats, such as simultaneous or sequential single-item auctions, bidders can implement no-regret learning strategies for single-bid auctions in polynomial time. Price of an...