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...
2) a set of abstract drama manager; 3) a model of player response to drama manager actions; and 4) an author-specified evaluation function. The drama manager's task is to sele...
Shrinking devices to the nanoscale, increasing integration densities, and reducing of voltage levels down to the thermal limit, all conspire to produce faulty systems. Frequent oc...
Kundan Nepal, R. Iris Bahar, Joseph L. Mundy, Will...
In previous papers we have described the basic elements for building an economic model consisting of a group of artificial traders functioning and adapting in an environment conta...
Replicating data objects onto servers across a system can alleviate access delays. The selection of data objects and servers requires solving a constraint optimization problem, wh...