This article presents a multi-agent dialogue system. We show how a collection of relatively simple agents is able to treat complex dialogue phenomena and deal successfully with di...
Hugo Pinto, Yorick Wilks, Roberta Catizone, Alexie...
Traditionally, two alternative design design approaches have been available to engineers: top-down and bottom-up. In the top-down approach, the design process starts with specifyin...
Abstract. Specification diagrams (SD's) are a novel form of graphical notation for specifying open distributed object systems. The design goal is to define notation for specif...
Many architectural ideas that appear to be useful from a hardware standpoint fail to achieve wide acceptance due to lack of compiler support. In this paper we explore the design of...
David Judd, Katherine A. Yelick, Christoforos E. K...
Message passing is a very popular style of parallel programming, used in a wide variety of applications and supported by many APIs, such as BSD sockets, MPI and PVM. Its importance...