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IJON
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Variational inference for Student-t MLP models
This paper presents a novel methodology to infer parameters of probabilistic models whose output noise is a Student-t distribution. The method is an extension of earlier work for ...
Hang T. Nguyen, Ian T. Nabney
TOOLS
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Understanding the Impact of Collection Contracts on Design
Abstract. Java provides a specification for a user-defined general purpose equivalence operator for objects, but collections such as Set have more stringent requirements. This in...
Stephen Nelson, David J. Pearce, James Noble
JSW
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Compositional Patterns of Non-Functional Properties for Contract Negotiation
— Providing powerful and fine-grained capabilities for the analysis and management of non-functional properties is a major challenge for component-based software systems. This a...
Hervé Chang, Philippe Collet
CBSE
2004
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Extra-Functional Contract Support in Components
According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...
Olivier Defour, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, ...
ICS
1993
Tsinghua U.
13 years 11 months ago
Graph Contraction for Physical Optimization Methods: A Quality-Cost Tradeoff for Mapping Data on Parallel Computers
Mapping data to parallel computers aims at minimizing the execution time of the associated application. However, it can take an unacceptable amount of time in comparison with the ...
Nashat Mansour, Ravi Ponnusamy, Alok N. Choudhary,...