We present a model, based on the maximum entropy method, for analyzing various measures of retrieval performance such as average precision, R-precision, and precision-at-cutoffs....
In this paper we combine existing work in the area of social laws with a framework for reasoning about knowledge in multi-agent systems. The unifying framework in which this is do...
Wiebe van der Hoek, Mark Roberts, Michael Wooldrid...
The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...
Abstract— Standard embeded sensor nework models emphasize energy efficiency and distributed decision-making by considering untethered and unattended sensors. To this we add two ...
Rajgopal Kannan, Sudipta Sarangi, S. Sitharama Iye...
The Enhanced Pay-Per-View (EPPV) model for providing continuous-media services associates with each continuous-media clip a display frequency that depends on the clip's popula...