The centering framework explains local coherence by relating local focus and the form of referring expressions. It has proven useful in monolog, but its utility for multiparty dis...
— The Immune System (IS) constitutes the defence mechanism of higher level organisms to micro organismic threats: it is a real distributed system providing mechanisms of adaptati...
Wepresent a new approachtodisambiguatingsyntactically ambiguous words in context, based on Variable Memory Markov (VMM) models. In contrast to xed-length Markovmodels,whichpredict...
—One of main issues in point matching is the choice of the mapping function and the computation of its optimal hyperparameters. In this paper, we propose an attractive approach t...
Abstract— This paper deals with the use of Bayesian Networks to compute system reliability of complex systems under epistemic uncertainty. In the context of incompleteness of rel...