The comparison of the accuracy of two binary diagnostic tests has traditionally required knowledge of the real state of the disease in all of the patients in the sample via the ap...
Testing and demonstrating context-aware applications is challenging. Gathering and using ‘life’ contextual information for these purposes, often requires significant extra dev...
Component-based development is the emerging paradigm in software production, though several challenges still slow down its full taking up. In particular, the "component trust...
Just as actions can have indirect effects on the state of the world, so too can sensing actions have indirect effects on an agent's state of knowledge. In this paper, we inve...
Motivated from an application to DNA library screening, Balding and Torney [1] and Colbourn [4] studied the following group testing for consecutive positives. Suppose Vn = {v1 v2 ...