This article summarizes the New Faculty Highlights talk with same title at AAAI 2021. Intelligent agents such as different types of robots will soon become an integral part our daily lives. In real-world multi-agent systems, most fundamental challenges are assigning tasks to multiple (task-level coordination problems) and planning collision-free paths for task locations (motion-level problems)....

Space and time are key elements for many computer-based systems often elevated to first-class abstractions. In tuple-based coordination, Linda primitives have been independently extended with space (with tuples queries spanning spatial regions) or information (mostly tuple scoping). However, recent works in collective adaptive aggregate computing show that can naturally be considered as two int...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to validate a patch-based image denoising method for ultra-low-dose CT images. Neural network with convolutional auto-encoder and pairs of standard-dose CT and ultra-low-dose CT image patches were used for image denoising. The performance of the proposed method was measured by using a chest phantom. MATERIALS AND METHODS Standard-dose and ultra-low-dos...

This paper deals with a relatively new area of radio-frequency (RF) technology based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). RF MEMS provides a class of new devices and components which display superior high-frequency performance relative to conventional (usually semiconductor) devices, and which enable new system capabilities. In addition, MEMS devices are designed and fabricated by techniqu...

ontology is the main infrastructure of the semantic web which provides facilities for integration, searching and sharing of information on the web. development of ontologies as the basis of semantic web and their heterogeneities have led to the existence of ontology matching. by emerging large-scale ontologies in real domain, the ontology matching systems faced with some problem like memory con...

Silicon-based large-scale photonic integrated circuits are becoming important, due to the need for higher complexity and lower cost for optical transmitters, receivers and optical buffers. In this paper, passive technologies for large-scale photonic integrated circuits are described, including polarization handling, light non-reciprocity and loss reduction. The design rule for polarization beam...