Many distributed applications can be understood in terms of components interacting in an open environment such as the Internet. Open environments are subject to change in unpredic...
We consider the problem of Adverse Selection and optimal derivative design within a Principal-Agent framework. The principal’s income is exposed to non-hedgeable risk factors ar...
In many cases of disagreement it is impossible to demonstrate that either party is wrong. The role of argument in such cases is to persuade rather than refute. Following Perelman, ...
A framework for the logical and statistical analysis and annotation of dynamic scenes containing occlusion and other uncertainties is presented. This framework consists of three e...
Brandon Bennett, Derek R. Magee, Anthony G. Cohn, ...
Abstract. This work addresses a class of total-variation based multilabeling problems over a spatially continuous image domain, where the data fidelity term can be any bounded fun...