Much recent research in decision theoretic planning has adopted Markov decision processes (MDPs) as the model of choice, and has attempted to make their solution more tractable by...
Modern distributed applications pose increasing demands for high availability, automatic management, and dynamic conguration of their software systems. This paper presents the ar...
Recently we have begun to build the basic tools for a generic speech-dialog system. The main modules, their function and internal communication have been specified. The different ...
In this paper, a ncw approach of a 3D human motion tracking mcthod in rcal time is proposed. The basis of thc nicthod is thc use of two scgrncntations, one temporal and the othcr ...
We examine the notion of "unrelatedness" in a probabilistic framework. Three formulations are presented. In the first formulation, two variables a and b are totally inde...