This paper introduces PigWorld, a tool for teaching Java to novice programmers, via the objects-early style. Three design guidelines forobject-early assignments are discussed: (1)...
1 The sequence of nucleotides that makes up a DNA molecule encodes the characteristics of living things. Bioinformatics offers sophisticated methods to search for and compare nucl...
We investigate a task insertion heuristic for oversubscribed scheduling problems, max-availability, that uses a simple estimate of resource contention to assign tasks to intervals...
This paper provides techniques for hierarchical task network (HTN) planning with durative actions. HTNs can provide useful heuristic guidance to planners, express goals that canno...
We describe how simple, commonly understood statistical models, such as statistical dependency parsers, probabilistic context-free grammars, and word-to-word translation models, c...