In this paper, we study phase transition behavior emerging from the interactions among multiple agents in the presence of noise. We propose a simple discrete-time model in which a...
In this paper we design an iterative rounding approach for the classic prize-collecting Steiner forest problem and more generally the prize-collecting survivable Steiner network de...
Abstract Microblogging is a form of online communication by which users broadcast brief text updates, also known as tweets, to the public or a selected circle of contacts. A varieg...
We present in this paper a method to insert new concepts in an existing information extraction system based on a conceptual graph architecture. We use verb patterns as conceptual s...
Abstract: The article presents a model of the structural properties of virtual communities and the information they can access. It argues that a large part of the information – a...