Abstract--The difficulties encountered in sequential decisionmaking problems under uncertainty are often linked to the large size of the state space. Exploiting the structure of th...
Margin-maximizing techniques such as boosting have been generating excitement in machine learning circles for several years now. Although these techniques offer significant impro...
We are developing a conversational agent called VIBRANT to provide adaptive support for brainstorming in pairs in a scientific inquiry context. Our previous experimental study indi...
Resource sharing in priority-based systems can give rise to priority-inversion and blocking, wherein a job’s execution is delayed because a lower-priority job holds some resourc...
This paper presents some insights into perceptual metrics for texture pattern categorization. An increasing number of researchers in the field of visualization are trying to explo...