Preference-based queries often referred to as skyline queries play an important role in cooperative query processing. However, their prohibitive result sizes pose a severe challen...
We point out several problems in scalingup statistical approaches to spoken dialogue systems to enable them to deal with complex but natural user goals, such as disjunctive and ne...
The incorporation of a trust network among the users of a recommender system (RS) proves beneficial to the quality and amount of recommendations. Involving also distrust can offe...
Finding effectively relevant information is becoming challenging task. In this paper, we propose a smart information filtering system SIM-Filter that integrates user’s identity ...
We describe a methodology for representing and optimizing user preferences on plans. Our approach differs from previous work on plan optimization in that we employ a generalizatio...
Gregg Rabideau, Barbara Engelhardt, Steve A. Chien