Obtaining performance models, like Markov chains and queueing networks, for systems of significant complexity and magnitude is a difficult task that is usually tackled using human...
In a semi-structured database there is no clear separation between the data and the schema, and the degree to which it is structured depends on the application. Semi-structured da...
This paper is a July 1999 snapshot of a "whitepaper" that I've been working on. The purpose of the whitepaper, which I initially drafted in April 1999, was to formu...
We consider a model of analog computation which can recognize various languages in real time. We encode an input word as a point in Rd by composing iterated maps, and then apply i...
In recent years, available audio corpora are rapidly increasing from fast growing Internet and digital libraries. How to classify and retrieve sound files relevant to the user'...