We introduce, analyze and demonstrate a recursive hierarchical generalization of the widely used hidden Markov models, which we name Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models (HHMM). Our m...
We study the average number of delays suffered by packets routed using greedy (work conserving) scheduling policies. We obtain tight bounds on the worst-case average number of del...
In this paper, we examine implications of definitions of information technology to women's participation in the industry and in academe. This paper is exploratory only, based...
Abstract—Segmenting lesions is a vital step in many computerized mass-detection schemes for digital (or digitized) mammograms. We have developed two novel lesion segmentation tec...
— Fault-tolerance is an important system metric for many operating environments, from automotive to space exploration. The conventional technique for improving system reliability...
John Lach, William H. Mangione-Smith, Miodrag Potk...