The modeling of noncooperative dialogs, as opposed to dialogs in which the goals of the participants coincide, presents novel challenges to a pragmatically oriented dialog system. ...
Anthony Jameson, B. Kipper, Alassane Ndiaye, Ralph...
Abstract. Component-based architectures are widely used in embedded systems. For managing complexity and improving quality separation of concerns is one of the most important princ...
Applications in the Pervasive Computing domain are challenged by the dynamism in which their execution environment changes, e.g. due to user mobility. As a result, applications ha...
Christian Becker, Marcus Handte, Gregor Schiele, K...
Most document or information management systems rely on hierarchies to organise documents (e.g. files, email messages or web bookmarks). However, the rigid structures of hierarchi...
Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Anthony LaMarca, M...
Due to increasing clock speeds and shrinking technologies, distributing a single global clock signal throughout a chip is becoming a difficult and challenging proposition. In this...