Research Abstracts - 2007

Physical, Biological & Social Systems

| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

A

• Multimodal Interactive Dialogue
     Aaron D. Adler & Randall Davis
• An Evolutionary Approach to Network Coding Problems
     Varun Aggarwal & Una-May O'Reilly
• Evolutionary Multi-Objective Analog/RF Circuit Optimization: Exploiting Easy-to-Get Designer Knowledge to Guide Variation Operators
     Varun Aggarwal, Lynne Salameh & Una-May O'Reilly
• Computationally Mapping Sequence Space to Understand Evolutionary Protein Engineering
     Kathryn A. Armstrong & Bruce Tidor

B

• Infrastructure for Engineered Emergence on Sensor/Actuator Networks
     Jonathan Bachrach & Jacob Beal
• Cooperative Navigation For Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
     Alexander Bahr & John J. Leonard
• Sensor Networks for Physical Event Monitoring: Flood Prediction in Central America
     Elizabeth Basha, Sai Ravela & Daniela Rus
• Leveraging Language into Learning
     Jacob Beal
• Active Hybrid Estimation
     Lars Blackmore & Brian C. Williams
• Robust Stochastic Control
     Lars Blackmore & Brian C. Williams
• Continuous State POMDPs for Object Manipulation Tasks
     Emma Brunskill & Nicholas Roy
• Optimal Exploration - Adaptive Undersea Bathymetric Mapping
     Lawrence Bush & Brian C. Williams
• Bipedal Walking on Rough Terrain
     Katie Byl, Stephen Proulx & Russ Tedrake

C

• Engineering Synthetic Splicing Ribozyme Systems
     Austin Che & Tom Knight
• Tractable Approach to Model-based Temporal Planning for Engineering Operations
     Seung H. Chung & Brian C. Williams

D

• Robot Intent Recognition
     Shuonan Dong

E

• Agile Legged Robot Locomotion
      Robert T. Effinger, Andreas G. Hofmann & Brian C. Williams
• Efficient Mode Estimation through Compiled Models
     Paul Elliott & Brian Williams

F

• The Rapid Story Annotation Workbench
     Mark A. Finlayson & Patrick H. Winston
• Reasoning by Imagining: The Neo-Bridge System
     Mark A. Finlayson & Patrick H. Winston

G

• Robust Modeling of Two-Dimensional Shapes
     Jared Glover, Nicholas Roy & Daniela Rus

H

• Web-scale Environments for Deduction Systems
     Chris Hanson
• Data-Purpose Algebra
     Chris Hanson & Gerald Jay Sussman
• Fast, Safe, and Robust Task Execution for Artibulated Robots
     Andreas G. Hofmann & Brian C. Williams
• Non-Metrical Navigation Through Visual Path Control
     Albert S. Huang & Seth Teller
• Predicting the Risk and Trajectory of Intensive Care Patients Using Survival Models
     Caleb W. Hug & Peter Szolovits
• Creation of a Biological Calcium Sensor by the Rational Redesign of Calmodulin
     David J. Huggins, Alan Jasanoff & Bruce Tidor
• Molecular Design of Drug Resistance Resistant Inhibitors
      David J. Huggins, Nate Silver & Bruce Tidor

I

• Optimization of Motor Control in Underactuated Legged Locomotion
     Fumiya Iida & Russ Tedrake

J

• Pertactin Beta-Helix Folding Mechanism Suggests Common Themes for the Secretion and Folding of Autotransporter Proteins
     Mirco Junker, Christopher Schuster, Andrew McDonnell, Kelli Sorg, Mary Finn, Bonnie Berger & Patricia Clark

K

• Shared Spaces and Edges in Distributed Geometric Building Models
     Dmitry Kashlev & Seth Teller
• Motif Discovery in Human Enhancer Regions Using 10 Mammals
     Pouya Kheradpour, Alexander Stark & Manolis Kellis
• Classroom Learning Partner: Supporting Interpretation and Aggregation of Digital Ink Answers to In-Class Exercises
     Kimberle Koile & Howard Shrobe
• Optimizing Robot Trajectories using Reinforcement Learning
     Thomas Kollar & Nicholas Roy

L

• Solving Hybrid Planning As Constraint Optimization
     Hui X. Li & Brian C. Williams
• Computational Models of Cognitive Maps
     Gary Look

M

• Transcriptional Factor Recruitment and Gene Regulation in Mammalian Tissues
     Kenzie D. MacIsaac, William Gordon, Katherine Romer & Ernest Fraenkel
• Complexity Metrics for Physical Computation on Multi-Robot Systems
     James McLurkin & Leslie Pack Kaelbling
• Identifying Tissue-Specific Genes with Semi-supervised Learning
     Patrycja V. Missiuro & Hui Ge
• Information Flow Analysis of Interactomes to Corroborate Phenotypic Knockout Profiles of Genes
     Patrycja V. Missiuro & Hui Ge
• Perception and Navigation for the DARPA Urban Challenge
     David C. Moore, John Leonard & Seth Teller

O

• Predicting Protein and RNA Structures and Interactions Using Biophysically-Motivated Energy Functions and Machine Learning
     Charles W. O'Donnell, Mieszko Lis, Jérôme Waldispühl & Srinivas Devadas

P

• Moving-Baseline Localization
     Jun-geun Park, Erik D. Demaine & Seth Teller
• The Psychophysiology of Decision Making
     John Perry
• Robust Range-Based Localization & Motion Planning Under Uncertainty in GPS-Denied Environments Using Ultra-Wideband Radio
     Samuel Prentice & Nicholas Roy

Q

• Parameter Expanded Variational Bayesian Methods
      Yuan (Alan) Qi & Tommi S. Jaakkola
• Semi-supervised Analysis of Gene Expression Profiles for Lineage-specific Development in the Caenorhabditis Elegans Embryo
     Yuan (Alan) Qi, Patrycja E. Missiuro, Ashish Kapoor, Craig P. Hunter, Tommi S. Jaakkola, David K. Gifford & Hui Ge

R

• Designing Drugs and Drug Cocktails that Recognize Multiple Targets: Theory and Application to HIV-1 Protease
     Mala L. Radhakrishnan & Bruce Tidor
• Roles of Gene & Species Mutation Rates for Accurate Gene Phylogenies
     Matthew D. Rasmussen & Manolis Kellis

S

• Human-Robot Coordination of Complex Tasks
     Julie A. Shah & Brian C. Williams
• U-REST: An Unsupervised Record Extraction SysTem
     Yuan Kui Shen & David R. Karger
• Genome-wide Identification of Fly Regulatory Motifs and their Functional Roles
     Alexander Stark, Pouya Kheradpour & Manolis Kellis
• Systematic Discovery and Characterization of Fly microRNAs Using 12 Drosophila Genomes
     Alexander Stark, Pouya Kheradpour, Leopold Parts, Julius Brennecke, Graham Ruby, Gregory Hannon, David Bartel & Manolis Kellis
• A Prototype Speech Calendar
     Xin Sun & Seth Teller
• Building Robust Systems
     Gerald Jay Sussman & Chris Hanson

T

• Semantic Environment Capture, Fine-Grained Localization, and Applications
     Seth Teller
• Context Sensitive Color Rendering from LED White Lighting
     Maria R. Thompson & Una-May O'Reilly
• Decoding the Mechanism of Oscillations in Feedback-Connected Biological Networks
      Jared Toettcher, Eric Batchelor, Galit Lahav & Bruce Tidor

V

• Getting to Know You Gradually: Personal Lifetime User Modeling (PLUM)
     Max Van Kleek, Michael Bernstein, Robin Stewart, David E. Karger, MC Schraefel & Howard E. Shrobe
• Learning of Distributed Controllers for Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robots
     Paulina Varshavskaya, Leslie Pack Kaelbling & Daniela Rus
• AMOUR (Autonomous Modular Optical Underwater Robot)
     Iuliu Vasilescu, Carrick Detweiler & Daniela Rus
• A Computational Approach to Emotional Robot Learning
     Juan D. Velásquez
• MultiShady
     Marsette A. Vona, Carrick Detweiler, Keith Kotay & Daniela Rus
• Shady
     Marsette A. Vona, Carrick Detweiler, Keith Kotay & Daniela Rus
• Generalized Kinematic Control and Proprioception in Linkage Robots
     Marsette A. Vona & Daniela Rus

W

• Long-Term Autonomous Navigation And Mapping In Dynamic Environments
      Aisha Walcott & John Leonard
• Modeling Ensembles of Transmembrane β-barrel Proteins
      Jérôme Waldispühl, Charles W. O'Donnell, Nathan Palmer, Srinivas Devadas, Peter Clote & Bonnie Berger
• Understanding Oscillatory Biological Systems using Dynamic Optimization Technique
      A. Katharina Wilkins, Paul I. Barton & Bruce Tidor
• Construction and Use of Ground Truth Tool for Drivezone, Lane Marking, and Hazard Classification in Roadway Video
     Geoff Wright & Seth Teller

X

• Ground-Truth, As-Built 3D CAD Model of Stata Center
     Xiao Xiao & Seth Teller

Y

• Distributed Multi-Robot Deployment Based on Successive Locally Optimal Matching
     Seung-kook Yun & Daniela Rus

Z

• Blood Glucose Monitoring in Critical Care
     Ying Zhang & Peter Szolovits
• Biomolecular Transduction of Mechanical Signals: Simulation Study of Force-modulated Protein Activity
     Aurore Zyto, Roger D. Kamm & Bruce Tidor