— In this paper a new approach to optimize nuclear power plant designs based on global risk reduction are described. In design the focus is on as components quality as redundancy...
The Ptolemy project studies modeling, simulation, and design of concurrent, real-time, embedded systems. The focus is on assembly of concurrent components. The key underlying prin...
Christopher X. Brooks, Edward A. Lee, Stavros Trip...
In this paper, we develop a new language construct to address one of the pitfalls of parallel programming: precise handling of events across parallel components. The construct, te...
William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Janis Sermulins,...
The work in this paper is based on the claim that collaborative dialogue involves taking into account how much information an utterance conveys, in the sense that it thereby shows...
We describe our approach in constructing question answering systems, which involves natural language parsing enhanced with named entity extraction and part-of-speech tagging. Perf...