This paper studies task scheduling algorithms which schedule a set of tasks on multiple cores so that the total scheduling length is minimized. Most of the algorithms developed in the past assume that a task is executed on a single core. Unlike the previous algorithms, the algorithms studied in this paper allow a task to be executed on multiple cores. This paper proposes six algorithms. All of ...

BACKGROUND Inpatient teams commonly track their tasks using paper checklists that are not shared between team members. Team members frequently communicate redundantly in order to prevent errors. METHODS We created a mobile, collaborative, real-time task list application on the iOS platform. The application listed tasks for each patient, allowed users to check them off as completed, and transm...

In this paper we describe our submissions to the TREC 2011 Entity Track. We have experimented with several combined approaches to search the entity candidates, i.e.: by resolving the linguistic relation of the given entity, query expansion by e the retrieval results, and ontology approach to identify the named entity from the search result snippets and to retrieved the candidate entity. We rank...

Multitask learning often improves system performance for morphosyntactic and semantic tagging tasks. However, the question of when and why this is the case has yet to be answered satisfactorily. Although previous work has hypothesised that this is linked to the label distributions of the auxiliary task, we argue that this is not sufficient. We show that information-theoretic measures which cons...

We introduce a new multi-modal task for computer systems, posed as a combined vision-language comprehension challenge: identifying the most suitable text describing a scene, given several similar options. Accomplishing the task entails demonstrating comprehension beyond just recognizing “keywords” (or key-phrases) and their corresponding visual concepts. Instead, it requires an alignment betwee...

Some evidence suggests that memory for serial order is domain-general. Evidence also points to asymmetries in interference between verbal and visual-spatial tasks. We confirm that concurrently remembering verbal and spatial serial lists provokes substantial interference compared with remembering a single list, but we further investigate the impact of this interference throughout the serial posi...

This study is to determine how bilingualism could influence the list of Persian basic color terms and their order. Using a monolingual Persian and a bilingual Kurd sample students, and a color list task, it is assumed that bilingualism could change the ordering of the non-basic color terms in the second language, but not the basic ones. Another assumption is that, the old usual methods for obta...

We describe the participation of the CERTH/CEA LIST team in the Placing Task of MediaEval 2015. We submitted five runs in total to the Locale-based placing sub-task, providing the estimated locations for the test set released by the organisers. Out of five runs, two are based solely on textual information, using feature selection and weighting methods over an existing language model-based appro...

Patients seeking deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for Parkinson's disease (PD) typically undergo neuropsychological assessment to determine candidacy for surgery, with poor memory performance interpreted as a contraindication. Patients with PD may exhibit worse memory for word lists than for stories due to the lack of inherent organization in a list of unrelated words. Unfortunately, word l...

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