ABSTRACT In multiagent domains with adversarial and ooperative team agents, team agents should be adaptive to the urrent environment and opponent. We introdu e an online method to provide the agents with team plans that a \ oa h" agent generates in response to the spe i opponents. The oa h agent an observe the agents behaviors but it has only periodi ommuni ation with the rest of the team. The ...

This article discusses the results of an experimental survey on the performance of a select group of open boundary conditions (OBCs) for threedimensional, primitive equation models. The focus is on passive conditions, where the model response at the open boundaries is dictated by the interior dynamics. The performance of the OBCs is tested in a series of numerical experiments conducted in a rot...

Abstra t. NTRUEn rypt, proposed in 1996 by Ho stein, Pipher and Silverman, is the fastest known latti e-based en ryption s heme. Its moderate key-sizes, ex ellent asymptoti performan e and onje tured resistan e to quantum omputers make it a desirable alternative to fa torisation and dis rete-log based en ryption s hemes. However, sin e its introdu tion, doubts have regularly arisen on its se ur...

We prese nt an automatic method for construc ting high-per forma nce pre classifica tion decision trees for OCR. Good pre classifier s must prune the set of alter native classes to a small number without err oneously pruning the corr ect class. We build the decision tree using gree dy entropy minimization, using pseudo-r andomly gener ated training samples der ived from a model of imaging defe ...

The vascular endothelium is integrally involved in the host response to infection and in organ failure during acute inflammatory disorders such as sepsis. Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacterial lipoproteins circulate in sepsis and can directly activate the endothelium by binding to endothelial cell (EC) TLR2. In this report, we perform the most comprehensive analysis to date of the immune-re...

BACKGROUND Mutations in several genes expressed in podocytes, including Cd2ap, have been associated with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in humans. Mutant mouse models provide an opportunity to better understand the molecular pathology that drives these diseases. METHODS In this report we use a battery of transgenic-GFP mice to facilitate the purification of all three major cell types of t...

Abstra t We demonstrate the advantages of using Bayesian neural networks in regression, inverse and lassi ation problems, whi h are ommon in industrial appli ations. The Bayesian approa h provides onsistent way to do inferen e by ombining the eviden e from data to prior knowledge from the problem. A pra ti al problem with neural networks is to sele t the orre t omplexity for the model, i.e., th...

Let X be a set of n Boolean variables and denote by C(X) the set of all 3lauses overX, i.e. the set of all 8 n3 possible disjun tions of three distin t, nonomplementary literals from variables in X. Let F (n;m) be a random 3-SAT formula formed by sele ting, with repla ement, m lauses uniformly at random from C(X) and taking their onjun tion. The satis ability threshold onje ture asserts that th...

Abstra t In this paper we present Kudos, a novel hierar hi al, topology aware overlay onstru tion algorithm. Kudos is an extension of Narada, an existing topology aware overlay; by adding hierar hy, we have signi antly in reased the s alability of Kudos while maintaining the performan e advantage of topology awareness. Additionally, we provide the rst detailed omparison between topology aware a...