Mixed-initiative planning is one approach to building an intelligent decision-making environment. A mixedinitiative system shares decision-making responsibility with the user such...
An increasingly important concern for modern systems design is how best to incorporate self-adaptation into systems so as to improve their ability to dynamically respond to faults,...
Shang-Wen Cheng, Vahe Poladian, David Garlan, Brad...
We present a statistical model of empirical optimization that admits the creation of algorithms with explicit and intuitively defined desiderata. Because No Free Lunch theorems di...
The ability to enforce usage policies attached to data in a fine grained manner requires that the system be able to trace and control the flow of information within it. This paper...
Srijith Krishnan Nair, Patrick N. D. Simpson, Brun...
Abstract. Terms which are not explicitly mentioned in the text of a document receive often a minor role in current retrieval systems. In this work we connect the management of such...