This paper deals with Chinese, English and Japanese multilingual information retrieval. Several merging strategies, including raw-score merging, round-robin merging, normalized-score merging, and normalizedby-top-k merging, were investigated. Experimental results show that centralized approach is better than distributed approach. In distributed approach, normalized-by-top-k with consideration o...

Social choice theory and cooperative (coalitional) game theory have become important foundations for the design and analysis of multiagent systems. In this paper, we use cooperative game theory tools in order to explore the coalition formation process in the coalitional manipulation problem. Unlike earlier work on a cooperative-game-theoretic approach to the manipulation problem [2], we conside...

We participated in the link detection task and submitted four runs, including both manual and ASR transcription for audio resources; and both English translation and original Chinese character source stream for Mandarin sources. This paper will propose a method to tell if a pair of news stories discusses the same topic. Several issues are addressed, e.g., how to represent a news story, how to m...

Liquid foods might present interferences in their optical properties that can reduce the effectiveness of short-wave ultraviolet radiation (UV-C) treatments used for sterilization purposes. The effect turbidity as UV-C interference factor against inactivation bacterial spores was analysed by using phosphate-buffered saline solutions (PBS) different values (2000, 2500, and 3000 NTU) which were a...

This paper studies a class of NTU coalition formation game in which every player's payo® depends only on the members of her coalition. We provide three conditions under which the core of such games is non-empty. The three properties identi ̄ed are called Union Responsiveness, Intersection Responsiveness, and Essentiality. All three are restrictions on individuals' preferences and stable allocati...

1Departments of Orthopaedics and Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA 2Department of Experimental andHealth Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), ICREA and CIBERNED, 08003 Barcelona, Spain 3Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), 28029 Madrid, Spain 4Department of Internal Medicine and NTU Center of Genomic Medicine Col...

This paper illustrates the morphing of flow architecture toward greater performance in a counterflow heat exchanger. The architecture consists of two plenums with a core of counterflow channels between them. Each stream enters one plenum and then flows in a channel that travels the core and crosses the second plenum. The volume of the heat exchanger is fixed while the volume fraction occupied b...

12 Some guidelines to evaluate distillation columns, considering only basic 13 thermodynamic data and principles, are provided in this paper. The method allows a 14 first insight to the problem by simple calculations, without requiring column variables 15 to ensure rational use of energy and low environmental impact. The separation system is 16 approached by two complementary ways: minimum and ...

Despite the growing discriminative capabilities of modern deep learning methods for recognition tasks, the inner workings of the state-of-art models still remain mostly black-boxes. In this paper, we propose a systematic interpretation of model parameters and hidden representations of Residual Temporal Convolutional Networks (Res-TCN) for action recognition in time-series data. We also propose ...