This paper presents a novel non-flat synchronization model where the synchronization capacity of each agent is different regarding its social rank and strategy dominance. In the p...
We study the problem of learning mixtures of distributions, a natural formalization of clustering. A mixture of distributions is a collection of distributions D = {D1, . . . DT },...
Abstract. We introduce a query language over sensors, streams and relations and formally describe its semantics. Although the language was specifically designed for sensor network ...
Christian Y. A. Brenninkmeijer, Ixent Galpin, Alva...
We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
In this paper, we describe our experience with collecting and creating an annotated corpus of multi-party online conversations in a chat-room environment. This effort is part of a...