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KI
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Pragmatics-First Approach to the Analysis and Generation of Dialogues
Integration of new utterances into context is a central task in any model for rational (human-machine) dialogues in natural language. In this paper, a pragmatics-first approach to...
Bernd Ludwig
VLDB
1993
ACM
106views Database» more  VLDB 1993»
14 years 1 months ago
Disk Mirroring with Alternating Deferred Updates
Mirroring is often used to enhance the reliability of disk systems, but it is usually considered expensive because it duplicates storage cost and increases the cost of writes. Tra...
Christos A. Polyzois, Anupam Bhide, Daniel M. Dias
CLIMA
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Belief Updating by Communication Channel
In this paper, we introduce the notion of communication channel into a multiagent system. We formalize the system in term of logic with Belief modality, where each possible world i...
Shingo Hagiwara, Mikito Kobayashi, Satoshi Tojo
DIAGRAMS
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Can Object (Instance) Diagrams Help First Year Students Understand Program Behaviour?
This paper investigates whether first year programming students can be helped to understand program behaviour through the use of Object (Instance) diagrams. Students were introduce...
Lynda Thomas, Mark Ratcliffe, Benjy J. Thomasson
SIGCSE
1996
ACM
125views Education» more  SIGCSE 1996»
14 years 1 months ago
An object-oriented program development environment for the first programming course
Over the last ten years there has been a major shift in programming language design from procedural languages to object-oriented languages. Most universities have adopted an objec...
Michael Kölling, John Rosenberg