: Some of the shortcomings of using refinement alone as the means of passing from high level simple models to actual detailed implementations are reviewed. Retrenchment is presente...
Although work pr ocesses, like software pr ocesses, include a number of process aspects such as defined phases and deadlines, they are not plannable in detail. Howe ver, the advan...
Abstract. Auction-based electronic commerce is an increasingly interesting domain for AI researchers. In this paper we present an attempt towards the construction of trading agents...
Abstract. We describe several improvements to Freund and Schapire's AdaBoost boosting algorithm, particularly in a setting in which hypotheses may assign confidences to each o...
CODE 2.0 is a graphical parallel programming system that targets the three goals of ease of use, portability, and production of efficient parallel code. Ease of use is provided by...