The agent with her/his objectives is the central part of the modelling process. Agents choose operationalisation and representation according to their objectives and their view of the world. The numerical models are normally a reduction of the empirical models, and thus of the domain of interest which results in further decontextualisation. We observe that even the soft computing methods reside...

Performance prediction can play an important role in improving the efficiency of multicomputers in executing scalable parallel applications. An accurate model of program execution time must include detailed algorithmic and architectural characterizations. The exact values for critical model parameters such as message latency and cache miss penalty can often be dificult to determine. This resear...

In answer to the essay question: \Describe some statistical techniques for word sense disambiguation"

In the lexicons of many of the world's languages, there seem to exist subword patterns of sound and meaning that cannot easily be analyzed as morphemes. English, for example, has a number of words that start with the consonant cluster gland share a meaning related to light or vision, including glimmer, glisten, glitter, gleam, glow, and glint. Firth (1930) coined the term PHONESTHEME to describ...