In the unconditionally reliable message transmission (URMT) problem, two non-faulty players, the sender S and the receiver R are part of a synchronous network modeled as a directe...
We propose and evaluate the concept of a semantically-smart disk system (SDS). As opposed to a traditional “smart” disk, an SDS has detailed knowledge of how the file system ...
Abstract: Democratic societies throughout the world, it appears, are facing a new type of threat dubbed "asymmetric threat." In this new threat environment the world gove...
The Tarragon Consulting team participated in the primary task of the TREC 2003 Genomics Track. We used a combination of knowledge-engineering and corpus analysis to construct sema...
Group elevator scheduling is an NP-hard sequential decision-making problem with unbounded state spaces and substantial uncertainty. Decision-theoretic reasoning plays a surprising...