These notes have the status of letters written to ourselves: we wrote them down because, without doing so, we found ourselves making rguments over and over again. So began the abs...
Abstract We study how the average performance of a system degrades as the load nears its peak capacity. We restrict our attention to the performance measures of average sojourn tim...
This paper is a critical analysis of the use of ontology as an instrument to specify the semantics of a document. The paper argue that not only is a logic of the type used in ontol...
The need for Bayesian inference arises in military intelligence, medical diagnosis and many other practical applications. The problem is that human inferences are generally conserv...
A new feature descriptor is presented for object and scene recognition. The new approach, called CDIKP, uniquely combines the scale-invariant feature detection with a robust proje...