We address the issue of detecting automatically occurrences of high level patterns in audiovisual documents. These patterns correspond to recurring sequences of shots, which are co...
The behavior of an agent is defined through the specification of plans and actions. Agents have a set of plans that are selected to be executed according to their goals (and other...
Viviane Torres da Silva, Ricardo Choren, Carlos Jo...
Publish/subscribe (pub/sub) middleware platforms for eventbased distributed systems often provide many configurable policies that affect end-to-end quality of service (QoS). Altho...
Joe Hoffert, Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha S. Gokh...
We describe an approach for acquiring the domain-specific dialog knowledge required to configure a task-oriented dialog system that uses human-human interaction data. The key aspe...
Dynamic system reconfiguration techniques are presented that can enable the systematic evolution of software systems due to unanticipated changes in specification or requirements. ...