Most present day search engines have a deterministic behavior in the sense that they return the same search results for all users who submit the same query at a certain time. They...
Kapil Goenka, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Mustafa Nur...
A sequence of queries submitted by a database user within a short period of time may have a single, illuminating explanation. In this paper we consider sequences of single-record q...
This paper presents a framework for personal agents that respect the privacy of the individual. We present some motivations and outline a framework for the use of personal agents a...
Ian Dickinson, Dave Reynolds, Dave Banks, Steve Ca...
Consumers of resources in realistic applications (e.g., web, multimedia) typically derive diminishing-return utilities from the amount of resource they receive. A resource provide...
In this paper, we describe our experience with the design and implementation of an embodied conversational agent (ECA) that converses with users in order to change their dietary b...
Fiorella de Rosis, Nicole Novielli, Valeria Carofi...