E-commerce as well as B2B applications are essentially based on interactions between different people and organizations (e.g. industry, banks, customers) that usually exploit the ...
Mario Bravetti, Claudio Guidi, Roberto Lucchi, Gia...
Web search is often viewed as a solitary task; however, there are many situations in which groups of people gather around a single computer to jointly search for information onlin...
This paper introduces a new corpus of consulting dialogues designed for training a dialogue manager that can handle consulting dialogues through spontaneous interactions from the ...
Kiyonori Ohtake, Teruhisa Misu, Chiori Hori, Hidek...
—Wireless ad hoc networks are inherently vulnerable, as any node can disrupt the communication of potentially any other node in the network. Many solutions to this problem have b...
Wojciech Galuba, Panos Papadimitratos, Marcin Potu...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...