A given entity, representing a person, a location or an organization, may be mentioned in text in multiple, ambiguous ways. Understanding natural language requires identifying whe...
Effective engineering of the Internet is predicated upon a detailed understanding of issues such as the large-scale structure of its underlying physical topology, the manner in wh...
Alberto Medina, Anukool Lakhina, Ibrahim Matta, Jo...
We propose a novel a framework for deriving approximations for intractable probabilistic models. This framework is based on a free energy (negative log marginal likelihood) and ca...
Distributed applications that lack a central, trustworthy authority for control and validation are properly termed decentralized. Multiple, independent agencies, or "partners...
Girish Suryanarayana, Justin R. Erenkrantz, Scott ...
With the increasing capabilities of hardware for 3D graphics and network, 3D multi-user environments get more and more interesting for e-business, entertainment and cooperative wo...