In recent years, many algorithms for the Web have been developed that work with information units distinct from individual web pages. These include segments of web pages or aggreg...
Models for sequential decision making under uncertainty (e.g., Markov decision processes,or MDPs) have beenstudied in operations research for decades. The recent incorporation of ...
To-do lists have been found to be the most popular personal information management tools, yet there is no automated system to interpret and act upon them when appropriate on behal...
Abstract. Personal assistant agents have long promised to automate routine everyday tasks in order to reduce the cognitive load on humans. One such routine task is the management o...
Pragnesh Jay Modi, Manuela M. Veloso, Stephen F. S...
We address the problem of visually detecting causal events and tting them together into a coherent story of the action witnessed by the camera. We show that this can be done by re...