Current state-of?the-art spoken dialog systems are aimed at handling telephone calls to automate incoming caller requests. In this paper we explore a scenario which is symmetric t...
Internet-based virtual worlds (VWs) have emerged as a popular form of collaborative virtual environment. Most have offered only text chat for user communication; however several V...
This paper explores the fundamental question of how many iterations the celebrated HITS algorithm requires on a general graph to converge in score and, perhaps more importantly, in...
Research show that teacher's nonverbal immediacy can have a positive impact on student's cognitive learning and affect [31]. This paper investigates the effectiveness of ...
Abstract. When merging belief functions, Dempster rule of combination is justified only when sources can be considered as independent. When dependencies are ill-known, it is usual ...