We discuss tournaments in terms of their efficiency as probabilistic mechanisms that select high-quality alternatives ("players") in a noisy environment. We use two crit...
While the use of computer applications is widely spread in every business and, hence, the reliability of software is critical, it is believed that many organizations involved in s...
How do design decisions impact the quality of the resulting software? In an empirical study of 52 ECLIPSE plug-ins, we found that the software design as well as past failure histo...
We consider rate allocation for multiple video users sharing a constant bitrate channel. Previously, overall quality of multiple users was improved by exploiting relative complexi...
Phrase level translation models are effective in improving translation quality by addressing the problem of local re-ordering across language boundaries. Methods that attempt to f...