The outcome of verifying software is often a `counterexample', i.e., a listing of the actions and states of a behavior not satisfying the specification. In order to understan...
In a peer-to-peer inference system, each peer can reason locally but can also solicit some of its acquaintances, which are peers sharing part of its vocabulary. In this paper, we ...
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in applying Bayesian networks and their extensions to reconstruct regulatory networks from gene expression data. Since the gene ...
An ensemble is a group of learning models that jointly solve a problem. However, the ensembles generated by existing techniques are sometimes unnecessarily large, which can lead t...
We apply the method known as simulated annealing to the following problem in convex optimization: minimize a linear function over an arbitrary convex set, where the convex set is ...