Manydesign problems are solved using multiple levels of abstraction, wherea design at one level has combinatorially manychildren at the next level. A stochastic optimization metho...
Louis I. Steinberg, J. Storrs Hall, Brian D. Davis...
The inherent difficulty in supporting human usability in large control systems--such as building environmental and security systems--derives from the large diversity of components...
Robin R. Penner, Erik S. Steinmetz, Christopher L....
The degree to which a planner succeeds and meets response deadlines depends on the correctness and completenessof its modelswhichdescribe events and actions that change the world ...
In this paper we argue that for realistic applications involving default reasoning it is necessary to reason about the priorities of defaults. Existing approaches require the know...
This paper describes a method for the development of dialogue managers for natural language interfaces. A dialogue manager is presented designed on the basis of both a theoretical...