Hierarchical models are commonly used to organize a Website's content. A Website's content structure can be represented by a topic hierarchy, a directed tree rooted at a...
Despite the advances in software engineering since 1968, current methods for going from a set of functional requirements to a design are not as direct, repeatable and constructive...
In this paper, we design and implement an efficient technique for parallel evidence propagation on state-of-the-art multicore processor systems. Evidence propagation is a major ste...
Any tree can be represented in a max/ma//y compact form as a directed acyclic graph where common subtrees are factored and shared, being represented only once. Such a compaction ca...
Philippe Flajolet, Paolo Sipala, Jean-Marc Steyaer...
We consider probabilistic inference in general hybrid networks, which include continuous and discrete variables in an arbitrary topology. We reexamine the question of variable dis...