An analytical framework for modeling the performance of a single TCP session in the presence of random packet loss is presented that is based on a semi-Markov model for the window ...
This paper demonstrates the power of aspect-orientation by implementing the EJB3.0 persistence framework. Our approach has advantages over existing mapping tools: Flexibility is h...
We present a new mechanism for preserving phenotypic behavioural diversity in a Genetic Programming application for hedge fund portfolio optimization, and provide experimental res...
We apply Support Vector Machines (SVMs) to identify English base phrases (chunks). SVMs are known to achieve high generalization performance even with input data of high dimension...
This is the first year that the Dalhousie University participated in TREC. We submitted three runs for the QA track. Our evaluation results are generally below the median (with on...