An Invitation to an Historic Nonwovens Event

An Invitation to Play

Parity games and their subclasses and variants pop up in various contexts: μ-calculus, tree automata, program verification [3, 1, 8]. Such games provide only binary information indicating the winning player. However, in classical games theory [12] the emphasis is rather on how much we win or lose. Can we incorporate the information about the profits and losses into parity games?

An Invitation to Topology

An Invitation to

* The author is an Associate Professor of Accounting on the faculty of the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The essay is written based on a few lectures on accounting theory given at various universities. The author thanks the audience at these lectures. In preparing the written manuscript, comments by Xijia Su of City University of Hong Ko...

An Invitation to Imitation

J. Andrew Bagnell March 15, 2015 J. A. Bagnell is an associate professor at the Robotics Institute and Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Imitation learning is the study of algorithms that attempt to improve performance by mimicking a teacher’s decisions and behaviors. Such techniques promise to enable effective “programming by demonstration” to automate tasks, such as d...

An Invitation to Image Analysis

The upcoming workshop Image Analysis and Understanding Data from Scientific Experiments at Los Alamos National Laboratory has two primary goals: to familiarize leading members of the image analysis community with problems of interest at LANL, and to introduce LANL scientists, many of whom have little expertise in image analysis, to some of the important tools and cutting edge developments in th...