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For effective retrieval of visual information, statistical learning plays a pivotal role. Statistical learning in such a context faces at least two major mathematical challenges: ...
Distributed applications can be structured using sessions that specify flows of messages between roles. We design a small specific language to declare sessions. We then build a c...
Since commercial musical recordings became available about a century ago and until very recently, they had always been distributed by means of a physical support. Nowadays that re...