Commercial database systems expose query hints to address situations in which the optimizer chooses a poor plan for a given query. However, current query hints are not flexible eno...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Ravishankar Rama...
Formal models of rational user behaviour are essential for user-centred reasoning about interactive systems. At an level, planned behaviour and reactive behaviour are two importan...
Many practical dextrous manipulation tasks involve large-scale motion of the grasped object while maintaining a stable grasp. To plan such tasks, one must control both the motion ...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and related systems such as Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) are incorporating decision support tools an...
Spoken dialogue systems are gaining popularity with improvements in speech recognition technologies. Dialogue systems can be modeled effectively using POMDPs, achieving improvemen...