We present a simple model of a debate between two interested parties which takes into account the complexity of their policy positions. The two debaters engage in all-pay-auctions to win slots of time/attention to present their positions to a decision maker. Complexity of a policy is modelled through the number of slots of attention needed to get the policy across. We show that when the number ...

To manage noise pollution, cities use monitoring systems over wireless acoustic sensor networks. These networks are mainly composed of fixed-location sound pressure level sensors deployed in outdoor sites the city for long-term monitoring. However, due to high economic and human resource costs, it is not feasible deploy fixed metering stations on every street a city. Therefore, these continuous...

This paper addresses the problem of learning multiple spoken language understanding (SLU) tasks that have overlapping sets of slots. In such a scenario, it is possible to achieve better slot filling performance by learning multiple tasks simultaneously, as opposed to learning them independently. We focus on presenting a number of simple multi-task learning algorithms for slot filling systems ba...

Effects of magnetic saturation on various equivalent circuit models of an induction motor are studied. The parameters of 2.2-kW and 37-kW motors with closed rotor slots are analyzed using finite element computations. Both skewed and unskewed rotor slots are studied. The magnetizing inductance not only depends on the main flux, but is also dependent on the rotor current, especially if the rotor ...

We consider the task of designing a truthful auction mechanism for CPU time scheduling problem. There are m commodities (time slots) T = {t1, t2, . . . , tm} for n buyers I = {1, 2, . . . , n}. Each buyer requires a number of time slots si for its task. The valuation function of buyer i for a bundle of time slots Ti is vi(Ti) = wi(m− t), where t is the last time slot in Ti and |Ti| = si. The ut...

In busy airports, too many departing flights take off out of the time slot required by the Central Flow Management Unit (CFMU). During ground traffic peaks, taxi out times and runway queuing delays increase, and it seems very hard and maybe unfeasible for ground controllers to organise properly the traffic so that aircraft take off at their scheduled time. In a first part, this paper shows how ...

We address the problem of automatically acquiring case frame patterns (selectional patterns) from large corpus data. In particular, we propose a method of learning dependencies between case frame slots. We view the problem of learning case frame patterns as that of learning multi-dimensional discrete joint distributions, where random variables represent case slots. We then formalize the depende...

In this paper, we propose a fuzzy bandwidth allocation controller (FBAC) to support two types of services: (i) restricted time-bounded service (RTBS), such as voice and video services, (ii) loose time-bounded service (LTBS), such as data service in wireless networks. Base on the FBAC, five different request assignment strategies are introduced. Simulation results demonstrate that the fuzzy cont...

In this report, we study the issue of delay optimization and energy efficiency in grid wireless sensor networks (WSNs). We focus on STDMA scheduling, where a predefined cycle is repeated, and where each node has fixed transmission opportunities during specific slots (defined by colors). We assume a STDMA algorithm that takes advantage of the regularity of grid topology to also provide a spatial...