The main contribution of this paper is the definition of the preference description language ¡¢ . This language allows us to combine qualitative and quantitative, penalty bas...
In recent papers, the partial order reduction approach has been adapted to reason about the probabilities for temporal properties in concurrent systems with probabilistic behaviour...
Manageability directly influences a system's reliability, availability, security, and safety, thus being a key ingredient of system dependability. Alas, we do not have today ...
We present and compare two approaches to the task of summarizing evaluative arguments. The first is a sentence extractionbased approach while the second is a language generation-b...
An interactive human segmentation approach is described. Given regions of interest provided by users, the approach iteratively estimates segmentation via a generalized EM algorith...
Zhe Lin, Larry S. Davis, David S. Doermann, Daniel...