this paper describes a small empirical study aimed at attempting to give an answer to the question: "will virtual reality provide a substitute for the tourism product"? I...
In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. Leveled commitment contracts--i.e., contracts where each party ca...
The next phase of human genomics will involve largescale screens of populations for signi cant DNA polymorphisms, notably single nucleotide polymorphisms SNP's. Dense human S...
1 W’edescribe a novel approach for predicting the function of a protein from its amino-acid sequence. Given features that can be computedfrom the amino-acid sequence in a straigh...
Marie desJardins, Peter D. Karp, Markus Krummenack...
We consider probabilistic inference in general hybrid networks, which include continuous and discrete variables in an arbitrary topology. We reexamine the question of variable dis...