Automated support of design teams, consisting of both human and automated systems, requires an understanding of the role of trust in distributed design processes. By explicitating ...
Niek J. E. Wijngaards, Hidde M. Boonstra, Frances ...
The emerging standards for the specification of Web Services support the publication of the static interfaces of the operations they may execute. However, little attention is paid...
Agent-based computing represents an exciting new synthesis both for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, more generally, Computer Science. It has the potential to significantly impro...
Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide an elegant mathematical framework for modeling complex decision and planning problems in stochastic domains in whic...
This paper describes a novel method by which a spoken dialogue system can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy from its experience interacting with human users. The method...