: Frameworks for composing Web Services offer a promising approach for realizing enterprise-wide and cross-organizational business applications. With BPEL4WS a powerful composition...
As spoken dialogue systems become deployed in increasingly complex domains, they face rising demands on the naturalness of interaction. We focus on system responsiveness, aiming t...
Intelligent planning algorithms such as the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) have succeeded in dialog management applications [10, 11, 12] because of their rob...
—This paper studies economic models of user participation incentive in participatory sensing applications. User participation is the most important element in participatory sensi...
The rapid globalization of Wikipedia is generating a parallel, multi-lingual corpus of unprecedented scale. Pages for the same topic in many different languages emerge both as a r...