Abstract. Computing lower bounds to the best-cost extension of a tuple is an ubiquous task in constraint optimization. A particular case of special interest is the computation of l...
This paper describes an agent-based approach to realizing interactive pedagogical drama. Characters choose their actions autonomously, while director and cinematographer agents ma...
Stacy Marsella, W. Lewis Johnson, Catherine LaBore
The Internet is changing from being only an efficient platform for data delivery to become also a platform for audio/video applications. The stability of the traditional Internet i...
Luca De Cicco, Saverio Mascolo, Vittorio Palmisano
We introduce factored language models (FLMs) and generalized parallel backoff (GPB). An FLM represents words as bundles of features (e.g., morphological classes, stems, data-drive...
We seek to support the development of open, distributed applications from patible software abstractions. In order to rigorously specify these abstractions, we are elaborating a for...
Markus Lumpe, Jean-Guy Schneider, Oscar Nierstrasz