Current rights expression languages (RELs) only allow for rights holders to dictate terms to the end users. This limits their use as a means for negotiating electronic contracts and end users are not able to request for changes in their rights contracts. In this paper we propose extensions to two popular XML based RELs: ODRL and XrML that allow for end users to request changes as well as the ri...

Current rights expression languages (RELs) only allow for rights holders to dictate terms to the end users. This limits their use as a means for negotiating electronic contracts and end users are not able to request changes in their rights contracts. In this paper we propose extensions to ODRL that allow end users to request changes and for the rights holder to grant or deny these changes. Thes...

Title: Adaptively introgressed Neandertal haplotype at the OAS locus functionally 1 impacts innate immune responses in humans. 18. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not. doi: bioRxiv preprint first posted online May. 3, 2016;. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license peer-reviewe...

In this paper, we develop new first-order method for composite non-convex minimization problems with simple constraints and inexact oracle. The objective function is given as a sum of `hard', possibly part, `simple' convex part. Informally speaking, oracle inexactness means that, the `hard' at any point can approximately calculate value construct quadratic function, which bounds from above. We ...

Standard Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) problems assume that the arms are independent. However, in many application scenarios, the information obtained by playing an arm provides information about the remainder of the arms. Hence, in such applications, this informativeness can and should be exploited to enable faster convergence to the optimal solution. In this paper, we introduce and formalize the G...

We made an MR-compatible brain slice holder that ensures that the images have the same location and orientation as the subsequent histologic sections. This device encloses the unfixed tissues, thus reducing the danger of exposure to pathogens. MR imaging time is saved by scanning selected slices rather than the whole brain; this technique is especially useful when brain sections at varying angl...