Moving object detection is very important for video surveillance. In many environments, motion maybe either interesting (salient) motion (e.g., a person) or uninteresting motion (...
Online auctions have become a pervasive transaction mechanism for e-commerce. As the largest online marketplace in the world, eBay is an attractive case study that enables the stu...
Creating good adaptation policies is critical to building complex autonomic systems since it is such policies that define the system configuration used in any given situation. W...
Gueyoung Jung, Kaustubh R. Joshi, Matti A. Hiltune...
We present black-box techniques for learning how to interleave the execution of multiple heuristics in order to improve average-case performance. In our model, a user is given a s...
Matthew J. Streeter, Daniel Golovin, Stephen F. Sm...
Spoken dialogue systems are gaining popularity with improvements in speech recognition technologies. Dialogue systems can be modeled effectively using POMDPs, achieving improvemen...