Abstract. Reo is a channel-based coordination model whose operational semantics is given by Constraint Automata (CA). Quantitative Constraint Automata extend CA (and hence, Reo) wi...
Farhad Arbab, Tom Chothia, Rob van der Mei, Sun Me...
We propose a novel approach to crosslingual language model (LM) adaptation based on bilingual Latent Semantic Analysis (bLSA). A bLSA model is introduced which enables latent topi...
Sharing huge, massively distributed databases in P2P systems is inherently difficult. As the amount of stored data increases, data localization techniques become no longer suffi...
Rabab Hayek, Guillaume Raschia, Patrick Valduriez,...
Abstract. We present the results of UMBC’s participation in the Web and Novelty tracks. We explored various heuristics-based link analysis approaches to the Topic Distillation ta...
Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Ch...
Mostexisting decision-theoretic planners represent uncertainty about the state of the world with a precisely specified probability distribution over world states. This representat...