From a system's perspective as opposed to an individual agent perspective, MAS adaptation is now becoming an important topic, since it can help to obtain expected outcomes ...
Many adaptative context-aware middleware exist and mostly rely on so-called vertical architectures that offer a functional decomposition for context-awareness. This architecture ...
Nicolas Ferry, Stephane Lavirotte, Jean-Yves Tigli...
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...
Since only a modest improvement in battery lifetime is expected in the next few years, energy conservation is raised as a key factor of the design of mobile devices. In view of th...
Deploying a classifier to large-scale systems such as the web requires careful feature design and performance evaluation. Evaluation is particularly challenging because these larg...