We examine a class of wagering mechanisms designed to elicit truthful predictions from a group of people without requiring any outside subsidy. We propose a number of desirable pr...
Nicolas S. Lambert, John Langford, Jennifer Wortma...
Measuring structural design properties of a software system, such as coupling, cohesion, or complexity, is a promising approach towards early quality assessments. To use such meas...
: A new method for the characterization of molecules based on the model approach of molecular surfaces is presented. We use the topographical properties of the surface as well as t...
Motivated by operators simplifying the topographic map of a function, we study the theoretical properties of two kinds of "grain" filters. The first category, discovered ...
— We present a new timeout algorithm for TCP, based on the observation that TCP-RTO should not be solely based on RTT estimations. We argue that the design principles of the curr...