Cloud infrastructures must accommodate changing demands for different types of processing with heterogeneous workloads and time constraints. In a similar context, dynamic management of virtualized application environments is becoming very important to exploit computing resources, especially with recent virtualization capabilities that allow live sessions to be moved transparently between server...

Inspired by previous source-side syntactic reordering methods for SMT, this paper focuses on using automatically learned syntactic reordering patterns with functional words which indicate structural reorderings between the source and target language. This approach takes advantage of phrase alignments and source-side parse trees for pattern extraction, and then filters out those patterns without...

Although drought is a normal, recurring feature of climate, little progress has been made in drought management in most parts of the world. The progress in drought planning that has been achieved in some countries and regions can be useful for other drought-prone regions. In this paper, a drought planning process, originally developed in 1991 for state-level government in the United States, is ...

Most existing approaches to Twitter sentiment analysis assume that sentiment is explicitly expressed through affective words. Nevertheless, sentiment is often implicitly expressed via latent semantic relations, patterns and dependencies among words in tweets. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that automatically captures patterns of words of similar contextual semantics and sentiment in...

We introduce the particular functionality of the Complaint Engine suite, the integrated complaint management component for mediating consumer disputes. We formulate the problem of epistemic categorization: whether a given complaint submitted by an upset customer is an adequate representation of company’s product, service and attitude towards customers. To do that, a sequence of communicative ac...

With as few as eight individuals and five alternatives, there are 561, 304, 372, 286, 875, 579, 077, 983 strategy-proof social choice rules. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. The Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem, now almost 30 years old, has become a staple of microeconomic theory, social choice theory, and mechanism design (Gibbard, 1973; Satterthwaite, 1975). Everyone understands that th...

Conventional robotic behaviors are directly programmed depending on the designer’s personal experience. With this method, it is difficult to create new behavioral designs. In this study, the authors aim to establish a new method of designing robotic behaviors by operating underlying evaluation functions in mathematical forms that can generates behaviors in computer calculations. The characteris...

AbstrAct Knowledge management is a relatively young discipline. It has accumulated a valuable body-of-knowledge on how to structure and represent knowledge, or how to design socio-technical knowledge management systems. A wide variety of approaches and systems exist that are often not interoperable, and hence, prevent an easy exchange of the gathered knowledge. Industry standards, which have be...

Research has been initiated to develop a cost model for an outsourcing company which is oriented toward the development and maintenance of management information systems for a large telecommunications company. A measurement process has been implemented to collect post-project data and to develop a cost model for estimation purposes. As an initial step, these data were analyzed using the SLIM me...