On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 11:23 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > It is less of a secret now that names are related to each other. > > FC2 was Tettnang, FC3 was Heidelberg, and FC4 is Stentz. What we need > is a name that is related to Stentz, but not in the same way that Stentz > is related to Heidelberg. Extra credit if there is a semi-easy way out > of the name for FC6. > > Please start discussing, I'd like to have a list of good names to throw > at Legal later this week. There is an algorithm sometimes referred to as "Stentz's Algorithm": http://planning.cs.uiuc.edu/node616.html A. Stentz. "Optimal and efficient path planning for partially-known environments." In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation, pages 3310-3317, 1994. used for finding paths when traversing terrain. I have no idea whether it was used by teams competing in the popular DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous vehicle races but it certainly looks related. In any case, here are two names known for their association with optimization algorithms. And, they have *plenty* of connections to other topics so they are a "way out" from the current (rather boring) city-names rut: "Metropolis" : from the Metropolis or Metropolis-Hastings algos for simulated annealing, the traveling salesman problems, etc. which are also used to find optimal paths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_algorithm "Amoeba" : a common name used to describe the way the Nelder-Mead optimization algorithm and/or how it works. Nelder-Mead is a very frequently cited paper. As with the Stentz algorithm (and with many other optimization methods), this algo is "feeling around looking for a better answer". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelder-Mead_method Does anyone else here think that Fedora is constantly "trying things looking for better answers" or is that too much of a stretch? :-) Ed -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 emails: eh3@xxxxxxx ed@xxxxxxx URLs: http://web.mit.edu/eh3/ http://eh3.com/ phone: 617-253-0098 fax: 617-253-4464
