An extension of the -calculus called BS is introduced as a formal basis for functional languages expressing bulk synchronous parallel algorithms. A con uence result is shown. The ...
Abstract We present an extensible encoding of object-oriented data models into higherorder logic (HOL). Our encoding is supported by a datatype package that leverages the use of th...
Database queries, in particular, event-driven continuous queries, are useful for many pervasive computing applications, such as video surveillance. In order to enable these applic...
This paper presents a novel opinion mining research problem, which is called Contrastive Opinion Modeling (COM). Given any query topic and a set of text collections from multiple ...
The most basic assumption used in statistical learning theory is that training data and test data are drawn from the same underlying distribution. Unfortunately, in many applicati...