This paper presents a new model for controlling information flow in systems with mutual distrust and decentralized authority. The model allows users to share information with dis...
Abstract— Imitation learning, or programming by demonstration (PbD), holds the promise of allowing robots to acquire skills from humans with domain-specific knowledge, who nonet...
Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
Abstract. In this paper, we describe a new way to access information by “chatting” to an information source. This involves a chatbot, a program that emulates human conversation...
: We analyze D/G/1 and M/G/1 queues where the service time for an arrival depends on the amount of work in the system upon arrival. The models are motivated by the bit dropping met...