This study investigates the mechanism of tonal contraction when a disyllabic unit is merged into a monosyllable at fast speech rate in Taiwan Mandarin. Various degrees of contract...
We consider the MAP/M/c queue with markovian flow of breakdowns. There are K waiting positions for arrival customers in the system. The system we consider comprises c servers, of ...
General Game Playing is the design of AI systems able to understand the rules of new games and to use such descriptions to play those games effectively. Games with imperfect infor...
Michael John Schofield, Timothy Joseph Cerexhe, Mi...
-- In the database outsourcing paradigm, a data owner (DO) delegates its DBMS administration to a specialized service provider (SP) that receives and processes queries from clients...
We present a system towards the integration of data mining into relational databases. To this end, a relational database model is proposed, based on the so called virtual mining vi...