—Application mobility is an efficient way to mask uneven conditioning and reduce users’ distractions in pervasive environments. However, since mobility brings more dynamism and...
The Internet is different from traditional parallel computing environments, and Distributed Genetic Algorithms (DGAs) for the Internet need to be designed to address these diffe...
As every user has his own idiosyncrasies and preferences, an interface that is honed for one user may be problematic for another. To accommodate a diverse range of users, many com...
Checkpointing is a commonly used approach to provide system fault-tolerance. However, using a constant checkpointing frequency may compromise the system's overall performance ...
When no training or adaptation data is available, semisupervised training is a good alternative for processing new domains. We perform Bayesian training of a part-of-speech (POS) ...