While the notion of a cooperative response has been the focus of considerable research in natural language dialogue systems, there has been little empirical work demonstrating how...
Internet servers need to be highly-available, inexpensive, and scalable. These goals are often con icting and most designs meet, with limited success, only few of them. In this pa...
The degree to which a planner succeeds and meets response deadlines depends on the correctness and completenessof its modelswhichdescribe events and actions that change the world ...
Transportation and logistics are fertile areas for modeling. Simulation has traditionally been used in warehousing and inside the distribution center or processing hub in the truc...
John S. Carson II, Mani S. Manivannan, Mark K. Bra...
For many companies the scheduling of job shops proves very difficult. Competing priorities (due dates, potential profit) from multiple customers confronts the plant manager with m...