Often efforts to change techniques or processes are met by "But its working, why change now?" Usually the impetous for change comes from someone who does not believe it ...
Many problems in AI study can be traced back to the confusion of different research goals. In this paper, five typical ways to define AI are clarified, analyzed, and compared. It i...
Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever larger problem as the number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. In this paper, we presen...
Although much work in NLP has focused on simply determining what a document means, we also must know whether or not to believe it. Fact-finding algorithms attempt to identify the ...
: BOSS targets a principle which the world forgot a long time ago: Simplicity. BOSS is an embedded real time operating system for safety critical applications. Our experience shows...