We discuss four issues concerning the semantics of Message Flow Graphs (MFGs). MFGs are extensively used as pictures of message-passing behavior. One type of MFG, Message Sequence...
We present Variable Influence Structure Analysis, or VISA, an algorithm that performs hierarchical decomposition of factored Markov decision processes. VISA uses a dynamic Bayesia...
We present a framework for an automated generation of exact search tree algorithms for NP-hard problems. The purpose of our approach is two-fold--rapid development and improved up...
Abstract Periodic refactoring of a large source code often becomes a necessity especially for long-lived projects. In order to increase maintainability and extensibility of such pr...
— Word sense disambiguation (WSD), the task of identifying the intended meanings (senses) of words in context, has been a long-standing research objective for natural language pr...