During incremental concept learning from examples, tentative hypotheses are formed and then modified to form new hypotheses. When there is a choice among hypotheses, bias is used to express a preference. Bias may be expressed by the choice of hypothesis language, it may be implemented as an evaluation function for selecting among hypotheses already generated, or it may consist of screening pote...

This paper describes an approach that enables agents to execute any interaction protocol that can be expressed in the proposed XML representation. Therefore, agents will be capable of executing any protocol representation received in run-time. In our approach, explicitly represented protocols are converted in an agent internal structure more suitable for being processed than XML. The internal r...

MPI accomplishes portable, standardized message-passing between processes by exposing a standard API that hides the implementation of the underlying mechanism for message passing. Until now, checkpointing an MPI program required knowledge of these underlying mechanisms. Through the addition of a proxy, we demonstrate that MPI programs can be checkpointed and restarted regardless of the MPI impl...

We show that any admissible cycle-convergence behavior is possible for restarted GMRES at a number of initial cycles, moreover the spectrum of the coefficient matrix alone does not determine this cycleconvergence. The latter can be viewed as an extension of the result of Greenbaum, Pták and Strakoš (SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications 1996; 17(3):465–469) to the case of restarted G...

The convergence of the restarted GMRES method can be significantly improved, for some problems, by using a weighted inner product that changes at each restart. How does this weighting affect convergence, and when is it useful? We show that weighted inner products can help in two distinct ways: when the coefficient matrix has localized eigenvectors, weighting can allow restarted GMRES to focus o...

The A-gradient minimization of the Rayleigh quotient allows to construct robust and fastconvergent eigensolvers for the generalized eigenvalue problem for (A,M) with symmetric and positive definite matrices. The A-gradient steepest descent iteration is the simplest case of more general restarted Krylov subspace iterations for the special case that all step-wise generated Krylov subspaces are tw...

Clozapine is a gold standard medication and drug of choice in refractory schizophrenia. Among many of its fatal side effects, delirium is less reported and inconsistently recognized by clinicians. We here present a case of delirium which emerged during retreatment with clozapine in a patient of paranoid schizophrenia. A patient diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was restarted on clozapine a...