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Extracting Qualitative Dynamics from Numerical Experiments
Yip, Kenneth Man-Kam

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Enlaces:	The Phase Space is a powerful tool for representing and reasoning about the qualitative behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems. Significant physical phenomena of the dynamical system---periodicity, recurrence, stability and the like---are reflected by outstanding geometric features of the trajectories in…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Transferring, Translating and Transforming: An Integrative Framework
Carlile, Paul

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Organizations must establish processes for managing knowledge across boundaries because of the specialized and task-dependent forms of knowledge required to deliver products and services. To address this challenge an integrative framework is developed that identifies and integrates the value of…
Fecha:	2003-12-10
Recurso:	MIT

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Knowledge Base Integration: What Can We Learn from Database Integration Research?
Lee, Jintae

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Enlaces:	This paper examines the issues and the solutions that have been studied in database (DB) integration research and tries to draw lessons from them for knowledge base (KB) integration.
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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A Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning Methods
Mataric, Maja

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Enlaces:	This paper analyzes the suitability of reinforcement learning (RL) for both programming and adapting situated agents. We discuss two RL algorithms: Q-learning and the Bucket Brigade. We introduce a special case of the Bucket Brigade, and analyze and compare its…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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A Lexical Conceptual Approach to Generation for Machine Translation
Dorr, Bonnie J.

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Enlaces:	Current approaches to generation for machine translation make use of direct-replacement templates, large grammars, and knowledge-based inferencing techniques. Not only are rules language-specific, but they are too simplistic to handle sentences that exhibit more complex phenomena. Furthermore, these systems are…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Emerging technology intelligence : scanning and monitoring for strategic planning
Brockley, Ellen M. (Ellen Marie), 1961-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	In recent years we have seen a confluence of science and technology that portends great impact to business strategy and product development. Just as physicists, chemists and biologists have extended their knowledge to other fields in pursuit of their own…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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LIGHTS: Laboratory for Information Globalization and Harmonization Technologies and Studies
Choucri, Nazli - Madnick, Stuart - Siegel, Michael - Wang, Richard

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Three important trends - unrelenting globalization, growing worldwide electronic connectivity, and increasing knowledge intensity of economic activity - are creating new opportunities for global politics, with challenging demands for information access, interpretation, provision and overall use. This has serious implications…
Fecha:	2004-03-05
Recurso:	MIT

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Qualitative Knowledge, Casual Reasoning and the Localization of Failures
Brown, Allen

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Enlaces:	This report investigates some techinques appropriate to representing the knowledge necessary for understanding a class of electronic machines -- radio receivers. A computational performance model - WATSON - is presented. WATSONs task is to isolate failures in radio receivers whose…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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Repairing Learned Knowledge Using Experience
Winston, Patrick H. - Rao, Satayjit

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Enlaces:	Explanation-based learning occurs when something useful is retained from an explanation, usually an account of how some particular problem can be solved given a sound theory. Many real-world explanations are not based on sound theory, however, and wrong things may…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Development of a knowledge-based expert system for tax auditing
Grochowski, Robert J. (Robert Joseph)

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Robert J. Grochowski., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1988., Includes bibliographical references.
Fecha:	2005-08-09
Recurso:	MIT

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A meta-language for systems architecting
Koo, Hsuehyung Benjamin, 1967-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	(cont.) To demonstrate its practical value in large-scale engineering systems, the research applied OPN to two space exploration programs and one aircraft design problem. In our experiments, OPN was able to significantly change the modeling and architectural reasoning process by…
Fecha:	2005-09-26
Recurso:	MIT

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Automated Information Extraction to Support Biomedical Decision Model Construction: A Preliminary Design
Li, Xiaoli - Leong, Tze Yun

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	We propose an information extraction framework to support automated construction of decision models in biomedicine. Our proposed technique classifies text-based documents from a large biomedical literature repository, e.g., MEDLINE, into predefined categories, and identifies important keywords for each category based…
Fecha:	2003-12-13
Recurso:	MIT

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2.5 D Cavity Balancing
Jin, S. - Lam, Yee Cheong

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Cavity balancing is the process of altering the flow front within a cavity through thickness and design changes such that the desired fill pattern is achieved. The 2 dimensional (2D) cavity-balancing algorithm, developed by Lam and Seow [1] can only…
Fecha:	2003-12-23
Recurso:	MIT

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Formalizing Reusable Software Components in the Programmer's Apprentice
Rich, Charles - Waters, Richard C.

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Enlaces:	There has been a long-standing desire in computer science for a way of collecting and using libraries of standard software components. The limited success in actually doing this stems not from any resistance to the idea, nor from any lack…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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On Web Taxonomy Integration
Zhang, Dell - Lee, Wee Sun

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	We address the problem of integrating objects from a source taxonomy into a master taxonomy. This problem is not only pervasive on the nowadays web, but also important to the emerging semantic web. A straightforward approach to automating this process…
Fecha:	2003-12-13
Recurso:	MIT

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Circumscribing Circumscription: A Guide to Relevance and Incompleteness
Williams, Brian C.

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Enlaces:	Intelligent agents in the physical world must work from incomplete information due to partial knowledge and limited resources. An agent copes with these limitations by applying rules of conjecture to make reasonable assumptions about what is known. Circumscription, proposed by…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Jokes and the Logic of the Cognitive Unconscious
Minsky, Marvin

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Enlaces:	Freud's theory of jokes explains how they overcome the mental "censors" that make it hard for us to think "forbidden" thoughts. But his theory did not work so well for humorous nonsense as for other comical subjects. In this essay…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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Frame-based Text Processing
Rosenberg, Steven T.

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Enlaces:	This paper presents an overview of a theory of discourse structure, and discusses a model for assimilating text into a frame-based data structure. The model has been applied to the analysis of news articles. The theory assumes sentences contain links…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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Introduction to the Calculus of Knowledge
Raphael, Bertram

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Enlaces:	This paper deals with the "Calculus of Knowledge", an extension of the propositional calculus in which one may reason about what other people know. Semantic and Syntactic systems are developed, certain theorems are proven, and a formal solution in the…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Cognitive conflict in learning three-dimensional space station structures
Benveniste, David, 1977-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	(cont.) reached very high values early in the experiment and was significantly but slightly lower in FC than in GC. The target position relative to the subject's body did not affect performance, but subjects responded significantly faster when they were…
Fecha:	2005-09-06
Recurso:	MIT

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Banking channel management : global trends and strategies
Catalan, Renato Teixeira

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Banking channel management has become a crucial component in the drive for improved efficiency. Since the channel is the interlocutor between customers and products, banks are leveraging their knowledge of channels to efficiently address perfect product portfolio through the most…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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Learning together better : the structured design of learning teams
Timmers, Kendell M. (Kendell MacQueen), 1978-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	There is a great need among educators for a way to quickly assign teams in large or distance learning classrooms in a manner superior to random assignment or student self-selection. Forming teams based on knowledge of students' characteristics is too…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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Telematics industry dynamics and strategies for converging technologies
Luis, Rodrigo, 1973-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The Telematics Industry faces tremendous challenges for growth. Regardless of the efforts and investment from vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, telematics has not been that profitable industry that many analyst forecasted five years ago; a 40 billion industry by 2003. This…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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A robust optimization approach to supply chains and revenue management
Thiele, Aurélie, 1977-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The contribution of this thesis is to provide a tractable framework for supply chains and revenue management problems subject to uncertainty that gives insight into the structure of the optimal policy and requires little knowledge of the underlying probability distributions.…
Fecha:	2005-05-17
Recurso:	MIT

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Power plant degradation : a modular secondary plant and integral flow accelerated corrosion model
Van der Helm, Mark Johan, 1972-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Flow Accelerated Corrosion (FAC) is the most prevalent material degradation mechanism for low carbon steel in steam-water flow systems. The band of uncertainty in predictions of wear rate due to FAC spans one to two orders of magnitude. Such a…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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A system for the interactive classification of knowledge
Balzac, Stephen R

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Stephen R. Balzac., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1987., Title as it appeared in M.I.T. Graduate List, June 1987: An interactive knowledge classifier., Bibliography: leaves 111-112.
Fecha:	2005-08-08
Recurso:	MIT

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Creating Lean Suppliers: Diffusing Lean Production Through the Supply Chain
Helper, Susan - MacDuffie, John Paul

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Enlaces:	Hon& of America has developed a comprehensive approach to teaching the principles of lean production to its suppliers. The centerpiece of these efforts is a program called BP (for ?Best process?, ?Best Performance ?, ?Bs Practice?), in which a crossfunctional…
Fecha:	2002-06-06
Recurso:	MIT

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Waves, currents, and sediment transport in the surf zone along long, straight beaches
Tajima, Yoshimitsu, 1972-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This study presents a theoretical model for predictions of near-shore hydrodynamic characteristics and the local sediment transport rate along long, straight beaches. The wave may be periodic or random, the beach may be plane or barred, and the bed may…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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Cognitive-developmental learning for a humanoid robot : a caregiver's gift
Arsenio, Artur Miguel Do Amaral, 1972-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	(cont.) which are then applied to developmentally acquire new object representations. The humanoid robot therefore sees the world through the caregiver's eyes. Building an artificial humanoid robot's brain, even at an infant's cognitive level, has been a long quest which…
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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The Programmer's Apprentice Project: A Research Overview
Rich, Charles - Waters, Richard C.

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Enlaces:	The goal of the Programmer's Apprentice project is to develop a theory of how expert programmers analyze, synthesize, modify, explain, specify, verify, and document programs. This research goal overlaps both artificial intelligence and software engineering. From the viewpoint of artificial…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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BUILD: A Tool for Maintaining Consistency in Modular Systems
Robbins, Richard Elliot

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Enlaces:	Build is a tool for keeping modular systems in a consistent state by managing the construction tasks (e.g. compilation, linking, etc.) associated with such systems. It employs a user supplied system model and a procedural description of a task to…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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Managing revisions of rules and guidelines used in clinical information systems : exploring a hierarchical knowledge representation model
Scott-Wright, Alicia, 1949-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	One important purpose for creating clinical practice guidelines is to improve quality of care by reducing variations in practice. In the current healthcare environment, guidelines are being advocated as a means to disseminate research findings, standardize care, improve quality of…
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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A Knowledge based segmentation algorithm for enhanced recognition of handwritten courtesy amounts

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Enlaces:	Karim Hussein ... [et al.], "March 1994.", Includes bibliographical references (p. [23]-[24])., Supported by the Productivity From Information Technology (PROFIT) Research Initiative at MIT.
Fecha:	2003-04-29
Recurso:	MIT

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A Methodology for integration of heterogeneous databases

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Enlaces:	M.P. Reddy ... [et al.], Reprint. Reprinted from IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering. Vol. 6, no. 6 (Dec. 1994) "December 1994.", Includes bibliographical references (p. 932)., Supported by the Productivity From Information Technology (PROFIT) Research Initiative at MIT.
Fecha:	2003-04-29
Recurso:	MIT

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Knowledge Integration to Overcome Ontological Heterogeneity: Challenges from Financial Information Systems
Firat, Aykut - Madnick, Stuart E. - Grosof, Benjamin

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	The shift towards global networking brings with it many opportunities and challenges. In this paper, we discuss key technologies in achieving global semantic interoperability among heterogeneous information systems, including both traditional and web data sources. In particular, we focus on…
Fecha:	2003-11-16
Recurso:	MIT

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Learning New Principles from Precedents and Exercises: The Details
Winston, Patrick H.

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Enlaces:	Much Learning is done by way of studying precedents and exercises. A teacher supplies a story, gives a problem, and expects a student both to solve a problem and to discover a principle. The student must find the correspondence between…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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The Use of Grouping in Visual Object Recognition.
Jacobs, David W.

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Enlaces:	The report describes a recognition system called GROPER, which performs grouping by using distance and relative orientation constraints that estimate the likelihood of different edges in an image coming from the same object. The thesis presents both a theoretical analysis…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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Global knowledge networking for the multinational enterprise
Lim, Shung Yar, 1979-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Shung Yar Lim., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2003., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-126).
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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Flavors: Message Passing in the Lisp Machine
Weinreb, Daniel - Moon, David

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Enlaces:	The object oriented programming style used in the Smalltalk and Actor languages is available in Lisp Machine Lisp, and used by the Lisp Machine software system. It is used to perform generic operations on objects. Part of its implementation is…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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Expressing Mathematical Subroutines Constructively
Roylance, Gerald

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Enlaces:	The typical subroutines that compute $\\sin(x)$ and $\\exp(x)$ bear little resemblance to our mathematical knowledge of these functions: they are composed of concrete arithmetic expressions that include many mysterious numerical constants. Instead of programming these subroutines conventionally, we can express…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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A Proposal for a Computational Model of Anatomical and Physiological Reasoning
Smith, Brian Cantwell

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Enlaces:	The studies of anatomy and physiology are fundamental ingredients of medical education. This paper identifies six ways in which such functional knowledge serves as the underpinnings for general medical reasoning, and outlines the design of a computational model of common…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Intelligence in Scientific Computing
Abelson, Harold - Eisenberg, Michael - Halfact, Mathew - Katzenelson, Jacob - Sacks, Elisha - Sussman, Gerald Jay - Wisdom, Jack - Yip, Ken

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Enlaces:	Combining numerical techniques with ideas from symbolic computation and with methods incorporating knowledge of science and mathematics leads to a new category of intelligent computational tools for scientists and engineers. These tools autonomously prepare simulation experiments from high-level specifications of…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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The Impact of Processing Time Knowledge on Dynamic Job-Shop Scheduling
Wein, Lawrence M. - Ou, Jihong

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	The goal of this paper is to determine if the results for dynamic job-shop scheduling problems are affected by the assumptions made with regard to the processing time distributions and the scheduler's knowledge of the processing times. Three dynamic jobshop…
Fecha:	2004-05-28
Recurso:	MIT

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Organizational design : the integration of pharmaceutical discovery and development
Smith, Peter J. A. (Peter John Anthony), 1959-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The decline in Pharmaceutical R&D productivity has been attributed to high clinical failure rates suggesting that targets, leads and clinical candidates may be of lower quality in recent years. Senior R&D management generally believes that a greater integration of drug…
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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A Framework for Low-Complexity Iterative Interference Cancellation in Communication Systems
Chan, Albert M.

Formato:	Technical Report
Enlaces:	Communication over interference channels poses challenges not present for the more traditional additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels. In order to approach the information limits of an interference channel, interference mitigation techniques need to be integrated with channel coding and…
Fecha:	2004-09-20
Recurso:	MIT

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Droplet Bouncing Behavior in the Direct Solder Bumping Process
Hsiao, Wayne - Chun, Jung-Hoon

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	This paper presents the results of an ongoing effort to develop a direct solder bumping process for electronics packaging. The proposed process entails delivering molten droplets onto specific locations on electronic devices to form solder bumps. This study is focused…
Fecha:	2003-11-29
Recurso:	MIT

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Multiple Input-Multiple Output Cycle-to-Cycle Control of Manufacturing Processes
Rzepniewski, Adam K. - Hardt, David E.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Cycle-to-cycle control is a method for using feedback to improve product quality for processes that are inaccessible within a single processing cycle. This limitation stems from the impossibility or the prohibitively high cost of placing sensors and actuators that could…
Fecha:	2003-11-29
Recurso:	MIT

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Discriminative, generative, and imitative learning
Jebara, Tony (Tony S.), 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	I propose a common framework that combines three different paradigms in machine learning: generative, discriminative and imitative learning. A generative probabilistic distribution is a principled way to model many machine learning and machine perception problems. Therein, one provides domain specific…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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Model-Based Troubleshooting of Digital Systems
Hamscher, Walter Charles

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Enlaces:	This thesis describes a methodology, a representation, and an implemented program for troubleshooting digital circuit boards at roughly the level of expertise one might expect in a human novice. Existing methods for model-based troubleshooting have not scaled up to deal…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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Creating Lean Suppliers: Diffusing Lean Production Through the Supply Chain
MacDuffie, John Paul - Helper, Susan

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Enlaces:	Honda of America has developed a comprehensive approach to teaching the principles of lean production to its suppliers. The centerpiece of these efforts is a program called BP (for "Best process", "Best Performance", "Bs Practice"), in which a crossfunctional team…
Fecha:	2002-07-18
Recurso:	MIT