The specification of the Java Memory Model (JMM) is phrased in terms of acceptors of execution sequences rather than the standard generative view of operational semantics. This cre...
— Serious efforts to develop computerized systems for natural language understanding and machine translation have taken place for more than half a century. Some successful system...
Commitment protocols formalize interactions among autonomous, heterogeneous agents, leaving the agents’ local policies unspecified. This paper studies the problem of agents ena...
This paper tracks the development of the author’s work entitled Light Tracer, and examines the surrounding issues of user authorship and creativity within interactivity. Light T...
We consider two of the most commonly cited measures of retrieval performance: average precision and R-precision. It is well known that average precision and R-precision are highly...