A variety of NLP applications use word2vec skip-gram, GloVe, and fastText word embeddings. These models learn two sets embedding vectors, but most practitioners only one them, or alternately an unweighted sum both. This is the first study to systematically explore a range linear combinations between second sets. We evaluate these on set six benchmarks including IR, POS-tagging, sentence similar...

Most routers in on-chip interconnection networks (OCINs) have multiple virtual channels (VCs) to mitigate the effects of head-of-line blocking. Multiple VCs necessitate VC allocation schemes since packets or flows must compete for channels when there are more flows than virtual channels at a link. Conventional dynamic VC allocation, however, raises two critical issues. First, it still suffers f...

In the last 2 decades, major changes in information technology have taken place. In process control, the ongoing automation and the application of new technologies caused a radical change in the position of the operator. Combined with manning constraints, and the ever increasing pressure to maximize the operational capability, navies stand for a huge challenge. Because of this new situation, op...

We present a new model, the Networks of Tasks (NOT) model, that allows modules from skeletonlike languages to be embedded in static task graphs. The model is designed to provide transparent cost information, so that program designers can accurately predict the execution time performance of their programs as they assemble them. This is done by using an implementation technique called work-based ...

We analyze whether unified or divided authority is optimal for voter welfare in a political agency model where multi-task issues arise from correlation in task-specific competences. The model highlights trade-offs within and across facets of voter welfare. Regarding incentives, unified authority yields higher total effort, but an allocation of that effort across tasks less fully aligned with vo...

Cognitive reapportionment is a design concept for managers and academics alike, dealing with the allocation of decision rights and authorities in business and management processes. The predominate design paradigms of the past emphasize a static, passive role for technology in general and information technology in particular. Acts of cognition were firmly associated with the human element of the...

This research investigates the problem of robust static resource allocation for distributed computing systems operating under imposed Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. Often, such systems are expected to function in an environment where uncertainties in system parameters is common. In such an environment, the amount of processing required to complete a task may fluctuate substantially. Dete...

Energy-efficient resource allocation within computing systems is important because of the growing demand for, and cost of, energy. In this paper, we study the problem of energy-constrained static resource allocation of a collection of communicating tasks to a heterogeneous computing environment. Our goal is to maximize the probability (calculated via Monte Carlo method) that our collection of t...