We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
This paper provides a technique, based on partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), for building automatic recovery controllers to guide distributed system recovery...
Kaustubh R. Joshi, William H. Sanders, Matti A. Hi...
In this paper we describe how to generate affective dialogs for multiple virtual characters based on a combination of both automatically generated and pre-scripted scenes. This is ...
Privacy and security are essential requirements in practical biometric systems. In order to prevent the theft of biometric patterns, it is desired to modify them through revocable...
Jaishanker K. Pillai, Vishal M. Patel, Rama Chella...
Discrete-Time Markov Chains (DTMCs) are a widely-used formalism to model probabilistic systems. On the one hand, available tools like PRISM or MRMC offer efficient model checking a...