Statistical user simulation is an efficient and effective way to train and evaluate the performance of a (spoken) dialog system. In this paper, we design and evaluate a modular da...
A major concern for large-scale deployment of location-based services (LBSs) is the potential abuse of their client location data, which may imply sensitive personal information. ...
The analysis of social and technological networks has attracted a lot of attention as social networking applications and mobile sensing devices have given us a wealth of real data...
John Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Vito L...
Logit Dynamics [Blume, Games and Economic Behavior, 1993] is a randomized best response dynamics for strategic games: at every time step a player is selected uniformly at random a...
Vincenzo Auletta, Diodato Ferraioli, Francesco Pas...
We present an approach for automatic detection of topic change. Our approach is based on the analysis of statistical features of topics in time-sliced corpora and their dynamics ov...