In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
We propose a general model of local property reconstruction. Suppose we have a function f on domain Γ, which is supposed to have a particular property P, but may not have the pro...
Detailed knowledge about implemented concerns in the source code is crucial for the cost-effective maintenance and successful evolution of large systems. Concern mining techniques...
The presentation will mainly cover (1) What is HowNet? HowNet is an on-line common-sense knowledgebase unveiling inter-conceptual relationships and interattribute relationships of...
The psycholinguistic theory of communication accommodation accounts for the general observation that participants in conversations tend to converge to one another’s communicativ...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Michael Gamon, S...