In this paper, we describe a new methodology to develop mixed-initiative spoken dialog systems, which is based on the extensive use of simulations to accelerate the development pr...
Scienti c research addressing global change continues to generate large quantities of information for analysis and understanding. However, the volume, distributed nature, and dive...
Joseph L. Sharnowski, Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C...
Real-world data -- especially when generated by distributed measurement infrastructures such as sensor networks -- tends to be incomplete, imprecise, and erroneous, making it impo...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second on billions of pages, making query processing a major factor in their operating costs. This has led to a lot of resear...
In many sensing applications we must continuously gather information to provide a good estimate of the state of the environment at every point in time. A robot may tour an environ...
Alexandra Meliou, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin,...