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Many types of products that have to be manufactured and supported for long periods of time lack control over critical parts of their supply chain, e.g., avionics, telecom infrastructure, and industrial controls. As a result, the components and technologies that these products depend on become obsolete long before the product’s field life (and sometimes even manufacturing life) ends. Obsolescenc...

Communication nowadays is based on communication platforms like Skype, Facebook, or SecondLife. The formal modeling and analysis of communication platforms poses considerable challenges, namely highly dynamic structures and complex behavior. Since most of the well-known formal modeling approaches are adequate only for specific aspects of communication platforms, in this paper we introduce the a...

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Generating and manipulating human facial images using high-level attributal controls are important and interesting problems. The models proposed in previous work can solve one of these two problems (generation or manipulation), but not both coherently. This paper proposes a novel model that learns how to both generate and modify the facial image from high-level semantic attributes. Our key idea...

Time series analysis of fertility can improve demographic forecasts. The optimal forecast and its variance for births to an age-structured population subject to serially correlated random fertility are developed. The general case in which the fertility process had arbitrary autoregressive structure is dealt with and then the 4 special cases of white noise, 1st-order autoregressive, 2nd-order ...