We prove old and new results on the complexity of computing the dimension of algebraic varieties. In particular, we show that this problem is NP-complete in the Blum-Shub-Smale mo...
Abstract. This work presents a constraint solver for the domain of rational trees. Since the problem is NP-hard the strategy used by the solver is to reduce as much as possible, in...
We relate the problem of finding the best application of a Synchronous ContextFree Grammar (SCFG) rule during parsing to a Markov Random Field. This representation allows us to u...
We examine the theoretical and numerical global convergence properties of a certain "gradient free" stochastic approximation algorithm called the "simultaneous pertu...
The increasing number of knowledge-based systems that build on a Bayesian belief network or influence diagram acknowledge the usefulness of these frameworks for addressing complex...