We performed an empirical study exploring people's interactions with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) while performing two tasks. Conditions varied with respect to 1) w...
The explicit documentation of the rationale of design decisions is a practice generally encouraged but rarely implemented in industry because of a variety of inhibitors. Known met...
Exact computation for aggregate queries usually requires large amounts of memory ? constrained in data-streaming ? or communication ? constrained in distributed computation ? and ...
A data set can be clustered in many ways depending on the clustering algorithm employed, parameter settings used and other factors. Can multiple clusterings be combined so that th...
Alexander P. Topchy, Anil K. Jain, William F. Punc...
Background: Empirical scoring functions have proven useful in protein structure modeling. Most such scoring functions depend on protein side chain conformations. However, backbone...