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CSL
2010
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Bayesian update of dialogue state: A POMDP framework for spoken dialogue systems
This paper describes a statistically motivated framework for performing real-time dialogue state updates and policy learning in a spoken dialogue system. The framework is based on...
Blaise Thomson, Steve Young
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EUROSYS
2006
ACM
16 years 16 days ago
The SMART way to migrate replicated stateful services
Many stateful services use the replicated state machine approach for high availability. In this approach, a service runs on multiple machines to survive machine failures. This pap...
Jacob R. Lorch, Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky, Ron...
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ICDAR
2003
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Optimizing the Number of States, Training Iterations and Gaussians in an HMM-based Handwritten Word Recognizer
In off-line handwriting recognition, classifiers based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) have become very popular. However, while there exist well-established training algorithms, s...
Simon Günter, Horst Bunke
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DSN
2007
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Web Services Wind Tunnel: On Performance Testing Large-Scale Stateful Web Services
New versions of existing large-scale web services such as Passport.com© have to go through rigorous performance evaluations in order to ensure a high degree of availability. Perf...
Marcelo De Barros, Jing Shiau, Chen Shang, Kenton ...
ICDCSW
2005
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
State Checksum and Its Role in System Stabilization
Although a self-stabilizing system that suffers from a transient fault is guaranteed to converge to a legitimate state after a finite number of steps, the convergence can be slow ...
Chin-Tser Huang, Mohamed G. Gouda