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ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Autonomous nondeterministic tour guides: improving quality of experience with TTD-MDPs
In this paper, we address the problem of building a system of autonomous agents for a complex environment, in our case, a museum with many visitors. Visitors may have varying pref...
Andrew S. Cantino, David L. Roberts, Charles L. Is...
ECOWS
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Service selection by choreography-driven matching
Abstract. The greater and greater quantity of services that are available over the web causes a growing attention to techniques that facilitate their reuse. A web service specific...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Alberto Martell...
FOCS
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Jitter Control in QoS Networks
We study jitter control in networks with guaranteed quality of service (QoS) from the competitive analysis point of view: we propose on-line algorithms that control jitter and comp...
Yishay Mansour, Boaz Patt-Shamir
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The Influence of Task Contexts on the Decision-Making of Humans and Computers
Abstract. Many environments in which people and computer agents interact involve deploying resources to accomplish tasks and satisfy goals. This paper investigates the way that the...
Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Avi Pfeffer, Stuart...
PRICAI
2000
Springer
14 years 21 days ago
Towards a Next-Generation Search Engine
As more information becomes available on the World Wide Web, it has become an acute problem to provide effective search tools for information access. Previous generations of search...
Qiang Yang, Hai-Feng Wang, Ji-Rong Wen, Gao Zhang,...