The designers of a large scale video-on-demand system face an optimization problem of deciding how to assign movies to multiple disks (servers) such that the request blocking proba...
Jun Guo, Eric Wing Ming Wong, Sammy Chan, Peter Ta...
Probabilistic processes appear naturally in various contexts, with applications to Business Processes, XML data management and more. Many models for specifying and querying such p...
We analyze the concept of focus in speech and the relationship between focus and speech acts for prosodic generation. We determine how the speaker's utterances are influenced...
We present an efficientmulti-levelchart parser that was designed forsyntacticanalysisofclosedcaptions (subtitles) in a real-time Machine Translation (MT) system. In order to achie...
To aid the development of spreadsheet debugging tools, a knowledge of end-users natural behaviour within the Excel environment would be advantageous. This paper details the design...