This paper describes new techniques for assessing pedagogical discourse via threaded discussions that are based on an analysis of speech acts and course topics. The context is an u...
Face recognition is among the most challenging techniques for personal identity verification. Even though it is so natural for humans, there are still many hidden mechanisms which ...
Massimo Tistarelli, Linda Brodo, Andrea Lagorio, M...
In this paper, we show the optimality of a certain class of disturbance-affine control policies in the context of one-dimensional, constrained, multi-stage robust optimization. Ou...
Dimitris Bertsimas, Dan Andrei Iancu, Pablo A. Par...
Many approaches to Information Extraction (IE) have been proposed in literature capable of finding and extract specific facts in relatively unstructured documents. Their applicatio...
In this chapter, we explore the emerging research domain of modeldriven software refactoring. Program refactoring is a proven technique that aims at improving the quality of sourc...