Even as they enjoy impressive growth, one of the major challenges facing providers of online services is a high rate of customer turnover. It has adverse impacts on business perfo...
Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. In this paper we apply agentbased modeling and simulation to investigate a set of problems in a...
Peer-Olaf Siebers, Uwe Aickelin, Helen Celia, Chri...
Window-based congestion control is typically based on exhausting bandwidth capacity, which occasionally leads to transient congestion. Moreover, flow synchronization may deteriora...
We present a new approach to dialogue management based on the use of multiple, interconnected policies. Instead of capturing the complexity of the interaction in a single large po...
In contextual advertising, estimating the number of impressions of an ad is critical in planning and budgeting advertising campaigns. However, producing this forecast, even within...
Xuerui Wang, Andrei Z. Broder, Marcus Fontoura, Va...