We show how the formal description language LOTOS can be used to deene software architectures and how patterns over LOTOS can serve to characterize architectural styles. We characterize styles by giving characteristics of the involved processes, a top-level communication pattern, and constraints that are suucient conditions for a concrete architectural description to be an instance of a given s...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to describe the typical longitudinal developmental trajectories of social and communication functioning in children with autism and to determine the correlates of these trajectories. METHODS Children with autism who were born in California from 1992 through 2001 and enrolled with the California Department of Developmental Services were identified. Subjects...

Modeling a user’s click-through behavior in click logs is a challenging task due to the well-known position bias problem. Recent advances in click models have adopted the examination hypothesis which distinguishes the document relevance from the position bias. In this paper, we revisit the examination hypothesis and observe that user clicks cannot be completely explained by the relevance and th...