Recent network information retrieval systems are compared for their expressiveness and usefulness --- first, in the general context of information retrieval, and then as prospective software reuse repositories. While the representational capabilities of these some of these systems are limited

Abstract: We review recent advances towards the computation of string couplings. Duality symmetry, mirror symmetry, Picard-Fuchs equations, etc. are some of the tools. One of the main topics of this conference was the matrix model approach to noncritical strings. There the outstanding open problem

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to the introduction of new IR books recently. Nevertheless, we believe that there is still great need of a book that approaches the field in a rigorous and complete way from a computer-science perspective (in opposition to a user-centered perspective). This book is an effort to partially fulfill this gap and should

by avoiding much expensive data labeling efforts. In recent years, transfer learning has emerged as a new learning framework to address this problem. This survey focuses on categorizing and reviewing the current progress on transfer learning for classification, regression and clustering problems

Schema matching is the task of finding semantic correspondences between elements of two schemas. It is needed in many database applications, such as integration of web data sources, data warehouse loading and XML message mapping. To reduce the amount of user effort as much as possible

are needed, but the efforts will pay back in terms of more rational policy-making and management practices. This paper analyses several important exercises on capacity building in Mexico, which took place during the decade of 1990-2000. Present efforts on capacity building, achievements and concerns

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tasks, had a more positive attitude toward the class, and had a stronger belief that success follows from one's effort. Students who perceived performance goals as salient tended to focus on their ability, evaluating their ability negatively and attributing failure to lack of ability. The pattern

Improv is a system for the creation of real-time behavior-based animated actors. There have been several recent efforts to build network distributed autonomous agents. But in general these efforts do not focus on the author's view. To create rich interactive worlds inhabited by believable