High-level actions (HLAs) lie at the heart of hierarchical planning. Typically, an HLA admits multiple refinements into primitive action sequences. Correct descriptions of the ef...
To efficiently find global patterns from a multi-database, information in each local database must first be mined and summarized at the local level. Then only the summarized infor...
— Two rate SLAs become increasingly popular in today’s Internet, allowing a customer to save money by paying one price for committed traffic and a much lower price for additio...
We describe a class of causal, discrete latent variable models called Multiple Multiplicative Factor models (MMFs). A data vector is represented in the latent space as a vector of...
Abstract. Semi-supervised clustering models, that incorporate user provided constraints to yield meaningful clusters, have recently become a popular area of research. In this paper...