The Companions project is a 4 year, EU funded Framework Programme 6 project involving a consortium of 16 partners across 8 countries. Its aim is to develop a personalised conversa...
Business incentives have brought us within a small factor of achieving the database community’s Grand Challenge set out in the Asilomar Report of 1998. This paper makes the case...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Tyson Condie, Minos N. Garo...
In problem solving, it is often important not only to find a solution but also to be able to explain it. We use the game of Bridge to illustrate how tactics, which formalise domai...
In recent years, compositional modeling and selfexplanatory simulation techniques have simplified the process of building dynamic simulators of physical systems. Building steady-s...
In this paper we present the digital library assistant (DiLiA). The system aims at augmenting the search in digital libraries in several dimensions. In the project advanced informa...