It is well known that prior knowledge or bias can speed up learning, at least in theory. It has proved di cult to make constructive use of prior knowledge, so that approximately c...
External sorting--the process of sorting a file that is too large to fit into the computer's internal memory and must be stored externally on disks--is a fundamental subroutin...
We present an approach to keyhole plan recognition which uses a dynamic belief (Bayesian) network to represent features of the domain that are needed to identify users’ plans and...
David W. Albrecht, Ingrid Zukerman, Ann E. Nichols...
Popular content is frequently replicated in multiple servers or caches in the Internet to offload origin servers and improve end-user experience. However, choosing the best server ...
Abstract--This paper proposes a new algorithm for the reduction of the number of colors in an image. The proposed adaptive color reduction (ACR) technique achieves color reduction ...