Conformant planning is a variation of classical AI planning where the initial state is partially known and actions can have nondeterministic effects. While a classical plan must a...
The explosive growth of the world-wide-web and the emergence of e-commerce has led to the development of recommender systems—a personalized information filtering technology use...
Like many massively-multiplayer role-playing games, Final Fantasy XI is a persistent world with a heroic fantasy setting. This paper discusses fictive player identities, and descr...
Current consumer electronics devices do not interoperate and are hard to use. Devices use proprietary, device-specific and inflexible protocols. Resources across device classes, s...
The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...