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Learning with Online Constraints: Shifting Concepts and Active Learning
(2006-09-01)
Many practical problems such as forecasting, real-time decisionmaking, streaming data applications, and resource-constrainedlearning, can be modeled as learning with online constraints. Thisthesis is concerned with analyzing ...
Anthills Built to Order: Automating Construction with Artificial Swarms
(2006-05-12)
Social insects build large, complex structures, which emerge through the collective actions of many simple agents acting with no centralized control or preplanning. These natural systems motivate investigating the use of ...
Predicting the Risk and Trajectory of Intensive Care Patients Using Survival Models
(2006-08-30)
Using artificial intelligence to assist physicians in patient care has received sustained interest over the past several decades. Recently, with automated systems at most bedsides, the amount of patient information collected ...
Javari: Adding Reference Immutability to Java
(2006-09-05)
This paper describes a programming language, Javari, that is capable of expressing and enforcing immutability constraints. The specific constraint expressed is that the abstract state of the object to which an immutable ...
Resilient Network Coding In the Presence of Byzantine Adversaries
(2006-08-05)
Network coding substantially increases network throughput. But since it involves mixing of information inside the network, a single corrupted packet generated by a malicious node can end up contaminating all the information ...
Human Document Classification Using Bags of Words
(2006-08-09)
Humans are remarkably adept at classifying text documents into cate-gories. For instance, while reading a news story, we are rapidly able to assess whether it belongs to the domain of finance, politics or sports. Automating ...
Finding the needles in the haystack: Generating legal test inputs for object-oriented programs
(2006-08-31)
A test input for an object-oriented program typically consists of asequence of method calls that use the API defined by the programunder test. Generating legal test inputs can be challenging because,for some programs, the ...
Task-Structured Probabilistic I/O Automata
(2006-09-05)
Modeling frameworks such as Probabilistic I/O Automata (PIOA) andMarkov Decision Processes permit both probabilistic andnondeterministic choices. In order to use such frameworks to express claims about probabilities of ...
Random Lens Imaging
(2006-09-02)
We call a random lens one for which the function relating the input light ray to the output sensor location is pseudo-random. Imaging systems with random lensescan expand the space of possible camera designs, allowing new ...
Lawless Privatization?
(CFAP, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, 2006)
This paper provides an historical analysis of the four privatization stages of the Russian economy covering the period 1986-2005 with particular attention to the initial period of private capital formation. We use data ...