Projects involving technology are notoriously dogged with difficulties and a number of lessons can be learned. Rather than detail examples from particular TEL projects, the author ...
We describe extensions to a finite-state dialogue manager and its author scripting language that enable control over content repetition during tutorial dialogue. The problem of co...
Pamela W. Jordan, Patricia L. Albacete, Kurt VanLe...
We formalize a model for supervised learning of action strategies in dynamic stochastic domains and show that PAC-learning results on Occam algorithms hold in this model as well. W...
We study the portfolio selection problem of an investor who can optimally exert costly effort for more income. The possibility of generating more income, if necessary, increases ...
Jaksa Cvitanic, Levon Goukasian, Fernando Zapatero
This paper focuses on a technique to empower commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) systems with an execution environment, and corresponding services, to support realtime and embedded ap...