Abstract. This paper reviews and relates two default reasoning mechanisms, lexicographic (lex) and maximum entropy (me) entailment. Meentailment requires that defaults be assigned ...
Abstract. We extend the common depth-first backtrack search for constraint satisfaction problems with randomized variable and value selection. The resulting methods are applied to ...
In a PC cluster with Ethernet, well-distributed multiple paths among hosts can be obtained by applying VLAN technology. In this paper, we propose VLAN topology sets and path assig...
One of the key elements in describing a software development method is the roles that are assigned to the members of the software team. This article describes our experience in ass...
Abstract. An effective way to examine causality is to conduct an experiment with random assignment. However, in many cases it is impossible or too expensive to perform controlled ...