entity, but an abstraction of unknown lower-level processes, the spreadingactivation model has predictive but not explanatory power. We provide one explanation of the fan effect by...
Content distribution networks (CDNs) increase the capacity of individual Web sites and attempt to deliver content from caches that are located "closer" to end-users than...
Alexandros Biliris, Charles D. Cranor, Fred Dougli...
An artificial immune system (ARTIS) is described which incorporates many properties of natural immune systems, including diversity, distributed computation, error tolerance, dynam...
—This paper compares parallel and distributed implementations of an iterative, Gibbs sampling, machine learning algorithm. Distributed implementations run under Hadoop on facilit...
Sebastien Bratieres, Jurgen Van Gael, Andreas Vlac...
The expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is widely used in the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) as the state-of-art statistical modeling technique. Like the classical EM method, th...
Sheeraz Memon, Margaret Lech, Namunu Chinthaka Mad...