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KBSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Towards Augmenting Requirements Models with Preferences
—The analysis of stakeholder requirements is a critical aspect of software engineering. A common way of specifying stakeholder requirements is in terms of a hierarchy of goals wh...
Sotirios Liaskos, Sheila A. McIlraith, John Mylopo...
IEEESCC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Byzantine Fault Tolerant Coordination for Web Services Business Activities
In this paper, we present a comprehensive study on the threats towards the coordination services for Web services business activities and explore the most optimal solution to miti...
Wenbing Zhao, Honglei Zhang
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Model for Context-Specific Route Directions
Wayfinding, i.e. getting from some origin to a destination, is one of the prime everyday problems humans encounter. It has received a lot of attention in research and many (commerc...
Kai-Florian Richter, Alexander Klippel
NIPS
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Boosting and Maximum Likelihood for Exponential Models
We derive an equivalence between AdaBoost and the dual of a convex optimization problem, showing that the only difference between minimizing the exponential loss used by AdaBoost ...
Guy Lebanon, John D. Lafferty
MP
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Generalized Goal Programming: polynomial methods and applications
In this paper we address a general Goal Programming problem with linear objectives, convex constraints, and an arbitrary componentwise nondecreasing norm to aggregate deviations w...
Emilio Carrizosa, Jörg Fliege