Sampling is an important tool for estimating large, complex sums and integrals over highdimensional spaces. For instance, importance sampling has been used as an alternative to ex...
We examine the notion of "unrelatedness" in a probabilistic framework. Three formulations are presented. In the first formulation, two variables a and b are totally inde...
Software product lines aim to create highly configurable programs from a set of features. Common belief and recent studies suggest that aspects are well-suited for implementing f...
We present a new approach for finding generalized contingent plans with loops and branches in situations where there is uncertainty in state properties and object quantities, but ...
Siddharth Srivastava, Neil Immerman, Shlomo Zilber...
: Ranking theory delivers an account of iterated contraction; each ranking function induces a specific iterated contraction behavior. The paper shows how to reconstruct a ranking f...