Spoken language is one of the most intuitive forms of interaction between humans and agents. Unfortunately, agents that interact with people using natural language often experienc...
We initiate the study of an interesting aspect of sponsored search advertising, namely the consequences of broad match- a feature where an ad of an advertiser can be mapped to a b...
Abstract-- The calculation of network reliability in a probabilistic context has long been an issue of practical and academic importance. Conventional approaches (determination of ...
Classic algorithms for sequential pattern discovery, return all frequent sequences present in a database. Since, in general, only a few ones are interesting from a user's poin...
It is considered good distributed computing practice to devise object implementations that tolerate contention, periods of asynchrony and a large number of failures, but perform f...