— This paper proposes CUP, a protocol for performing Controlled Update Propagation to maintain caches of metadata in peer-to-peer networks. To moderate propagation without imposi...
The quality of student consultants and their development through training and education are major factors in determining long-term effectiveness of university Help Desk. To hire a...
We present a new approach to dialogue management based on the use of multiple, interconnected policies. Instead of capturing the complexity of the interaction in a single large po...
We propose a general scheme for creating adaptive replacement policies with good performance and strong theoretical guarantees. Specifically, we show how to combine any two exist...
We propose a model for XML update primitives of the W3C XQuery Update Facility as parameterized rewriting rules of the form: "insert an unranked tree from a regular tree lang...