Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is performed on the beating heart, through inter-costal ports. The two major limitations of these procedures are: selecting port locations for op...
Combinatorial auctions, that is, auctions where bidders can bid on combinations of items, tend to lead to more efficient allocations than traditional auction mechanisms in multi-i...
Abstract. The generation of formal poetry involves both complex creativity usually exercised by a human poet - and strict algorithmic restrictions regarding the metrical structure ...
Suppose that there are a number of alternative ways of operating a system, and a performance measure is available for comparing them. Simulation runs can be carried out to estimat...
The recent availability of large corpora for training N-gram language models has shown the utility of models of higher order than just trigrams. In this paper, we investigate meth...