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Vision based bin picking is increasingly more di cult as the complexity of target objects increases We propose an e cient solution where complex objects are su ciently represented by simple features cues thus invariance to object complexity is established The re gion extraction algorithm utilized in our approach is capable of providing the focus of attention to the simple cues as a trigger towa...

In 2002, Feigin and Veselov [4] defined the space of m-quasiinvariants for any Coxeter group, building on earlier work of [2]. While many properties of those spaces were proven in [3, 4, 5, 7] from this definition, an explicit computation of a basis was only done in certain cases. In particular, in [4], bases for m-quasiinvariants were computed for dihedral groups, including S3, and Felder and ...

The bullwhip effect, or demand information distortion, has been a subject of both theoretical and empirical studies in the operations management literature. In this paper, we develop a simple set of formulas that describe the traditional bullwhip measure as a combined outcome of several important drivers, such as finite capacity, batch-ordering, and seasonality. Our modeling framework is descri...

We present preliminary work on automatically scoring constructed responses elicited as part of a certification test designed to measure the effectiveness of the test-taker as a K-12 music teacher. This content scoring differs from most previous work in that the responses are relatively long and are written by an adult population of generally proficient English writers. We obtain reasonably good...

The decomposition of distributed systems is often driven by its process structure only, focusing on the behaviour of individual agents. In previous work, we have argued that this is not always an adequate modularization of distributed systems, and have proposed “cross-cutting” collaboration modules instead. In this paper, we discuss language support for the specification of collaboration module...

We show that people’s travel destinations are predictable based on simple features of their home and destination. Using geotagged Twitter data from over 200,000 people in the U.S., with a median of 10 visits per user, we use machine learning to classify whether or not a person will visit a given location. We find that travel distance is the most important predictive feature. Ignoring distance, ...

This article describes a simple unsupervised system for automatic extraction and classification of named entities in French novels. The solution presented combines a set of different standalone classifiers within a meta-recognition system. The system is tested on 35 classic French novels, representing 5 million words and 3,700 names of people and places. The results demonstrate that although no...

In 1978, Courcelle asked for a complete set of axioms and rules for the equational theory of (discrete regular) words equipped with the operations of product, omega power and omega-op power. In this paper we find a simple set of equations and prove they are complete. Moreover, we show that the equational theory is decidable in polynomial time.