Manin’s conjecture predicts an asymptotic formula for the number of rational points of bounded height on a smooth projective variety X in terms of global geometric invariants of X. The strongest form of the conjecture implies certain inequalities among geometric invariants of X and of its subvarieties. We provide a general geometric framework explaining these phenomena, via the notion of balanc...

There is a significant gap between the performance of a coreference resolution system on gold mentions and on system mentions. This gap is due to the large and unbalanced search space in coreference resolution when using system mentions. In this paper we show that search space pruning is a simple but efficient way of improving coreference resolvers. By incorporating our pruning method in one of...

The rapid development of information and communication technologies has given rise to the emerging of the e –government. Various approaches have been adopted to evaluate the e-government. This paper suggests the Balanced Scoreboard approach and attempts to devise a systematic evaluation framework.

This paper examines the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the remuneration of the CEOs in a large unbalanced panel of UK firms, over the period 1981-1996. We find significant and substantial executive pay increases in excess of those generated by the growth in firm size consequent upon the merger. This is consistent with the view that mergers reveal information about the quality of manageme...

Artificial intelligence started with the goal of understanding minds by attempting to build them. This essay discussed how our field’s research has become unbalanced, and what might be done to change this situation. Specifically, I argue that more of our efforts should be focused on creating integrated cognitive systems. The founding of this journal will hopefully help by promoting such research.

In this qualitative study, undergraduate computing students from two mid-sized southeastern universities participated in focus groups to explore their (1) developing professional identities, (2) salient stressors within their computing education programs, and (3) coping strategies used to navigate these stressors. Students provided contextual evidence to support the formation of professional id...

In Group Decision Making (GDM) the automatic consensus models are guided by different consensus measures which usually are obtained by aggregating similarities observed among experts’ opinions. Most GDM problems based on linguistic approaches use symmetrically and uniformly distributed linguistic term sets to express experts’ opinions. However, there exist problems whose assessments need to be ...

using the group inverse, an explicit solution to a symmetric singular system is described. The general explicit solution is derived when the symmetric singular system satisfies the regularity condition. Certain special properties of these singular systems are presented. Finally, a symmetric balanced realization is obtained from an equivalent standard control system. @ 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd....

Interconnection of two autonomous swarm grids (DC clusters) which are designed for energy access can increase power supply availability hungry appliances such as water pumps. Here, a surplus or deficit in one cluster is balanced by second through exchange. Usually, the clusters connected tie line if bus voltages both equal and constant. If different constant, single converter used to interconne...

Large discrete supertetrahedral clusters of metal chalcogenides are rare due to the difficulty crystallizing solids in which negative charge cluster is balanced by positive charges countercations. Here, we describe a ligand-free T3 cluster, [Ga10S16(SH)4]6−, was successfully synthesized presence superbase 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU) using neutral surfactant polyethyleneglycol (PEG)...