The paper proposes a solution for the Grid scheduling problem, addressing in particular the requirement of high performance an efficient algorithm must fulfill. Advance Reservation engages a distributed, dynamic, fault-tolerant and efficient strategy which reserves resources for future task execution. The paper presents the main features of the strategy, the functioning mechanism the strategy i...

Let Θ be a smooth compact oriented manifold without boundary, imbedded in a euclidean space E, and let γ be a smooth map of Θ into a Riemannian manifold Λ. An unknown state θ ∈ Θ is observed via X = θ + ǫξ where ǫ > 0 is a small parameter and ξ is a white Gaussian noise. For a given smooth prior λ on Θ and smooth estimators g(X) of the map γ we derive a second-order asymptotic expansion for the...

I thank the referee for reading the paper and for alerting me that I have to phrase things more carefully in order to avoid misreading. Main concerns 1. The entire point is based on misreading the paper. The referee interprets the reservation wage R as relating to the unemployed or people engaged in home production, whereas I have written (I quote the entire paragraph, where the reservation wag...

167 and H1-H2 are significantly decreased while HRF is consistently increased. Hypo/Hyperarticulated Speech: For hyperarticulated voice, speech clarity tends to be maximized, while hypoarticulation refers to speech produced with minimal efforts. We have shown in [6] that the stronger the degree of articulation, the higher the glottal formant frequency, the maximum voiced frequency and the funda...

Developing human-centered agent architectures requires the integral consideration of architectural flexibility, teamwork adaptability, and context reasoning capability. With the integration of various forms of team intelligence including shared teamwork process and progress, dynamic context management and information dependency reasoning, and recognition-primed collaborative decision mechanism,...

I investigate whether voters judge the performance of their governor on taxes by comparing him to governors from neighboring states. If voters do make these comparisons, it creates "yardstick competition," where governors are competing with each other as they set taxes. Previous research has shown that governors are punished at the ballot box for raising taxes. However, Besley and Case (AER 199...

A model is proposed that interprets a variety of connected speech processes as resulting from prosodic modulations at different tiers of functional speech motor control along the hypo-hyper dimension [10]. The general background of the model is given by the trichotomy of A-, Band C-prosodic phenomena [15] that together constitute the acoustic makeup of any speech utterance (with regard to their...