The authors present TWIG, a visually grounded wordlearning system that uses its existing knowledge of vocabulary, grammar, and action schemas to help it learn the meanings of new ...
In probabilistic reasoning, the problems of existence and identity are important to many different queries; for example, the probability that something that fits some description...
We present the basic concepts of experimental design, the types of goals it can address, and why it is such an important and useful tool for simulation. A well-designed experiment...
Recent advances in high-performance computing have pushed computational capabilities to a petaflop (a thousand trillion operations per second) in a single computing cluster. This ...
When issuing user-specific queries, users often have a vaguely defined information need. Skyline queries identify the most "interesting" objects for users' incomplet...