The performance of spoken language systems on utterances from the ATI$ domain is evaluated by comparing systemproduced responses with hand-crafted (and -verified) standard responses to the same utterances. The objective of SRI's annotation project is to provide SLS system developers with the range of correct responses to human utterances produced during experimental sessions with ATIS domain in...

Dynamic service level negotiation is necessary to flexibly allocate resources according to QoS demands of a host or a domain. We have designed COPS-SLS as a service level negotiation protocol for IP-based networks. In this paper, we analyse a COPS-SLS-based negotiation system from the protocol design and system’s scalability perspectives. This analysis is useful not only to the improvement of t...

The paper discusses an economically efficient and internationally equitable provision of a specific public good. The good in question, the Baltic Sea, satisfies a number of needs, but economic values implied may be different in various countries polluting and using the Sea. The level of eutrophication has been identified as a key characteristic of the Baltic Sea relevant for its value. The Chan...

The objective of this deliverable is to perform a first assessment of wireless access/multiple access technologies for the WINNER system concept. The study of multiple access schemes is the responsibility of Task 4 within the WINNER workpackage 2. The work requires the collection and assessment of the numerous ideas and proposals available. The technologies and combinations of technologies are ...

Based on the search forest for positive programs as deened by Bol and Degerstedt, we deene a tabulated version of SLS-resolution that is sound and complete w.r.t. well founded semantics. In contrast to SLS-resolution as proposed by Przymusinski and by Ross, a positivistic computation rule is not required. This proposal is closely related to that of Chen and Warren, but it relies on tabulation f...

We observed that Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF) encodings of structured SAT instances often have a set of consecutive clauses defined over a small number of Boolean variables. To exploit the pattern, we propose a transformation of CNF to an alternative representation, Conjunctive Minterm Canonical Form (CMCF). The transformation is a two-step process: CNF clauses are first partitioned into disjo...

This paper engineers a new state-of-the-art Stochastic Local Search (SLS) for the Low Autocorrelation Binary Sequence (LABS) problem. The new SLS solver is obtained with white-box visualization to get insights on how an SLS can be effective for LABS; implementation improvements; and black-box parameter tuning.

BACKGROUND Undertaking a Delphi exercise is recommended during the second stage in the development process for a reporting guideline. To continue the development for the Guideline for Reporting Evidence-based practice Educational interventions and Teaching (GREET) a Delphi survey was undertaken to determine the consensus opinion of researchers, journal editors and educators in evidence-based pr...

We describe an advanced setup for time-resolved x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectroscopy with picosecond temporal resolution. It combines an intense femtosecond laser source synchronized to the x-ray pulses delivered into the microXAS beamline of the Swiss Light Source (SLS). The setup is applied to measure the short-lived high-spin geometric structure of photoexcited aqueous Fe(bpy)...