: Although avatars may resemble communicative interface agents, they have for the most part not profited from recent research into autonomous embodied conversational systems. In pa...
d Abstract) Paolo Boldi† Massimo Santini‡ Sebastiano Vigna∗ Deciding which kind of visit accumulates high-quality pages more quickly is one of the most often debated issue i...
We present a combinatorial framework for the study of a natural class of distributed optimization problems that involve decisionmaking by a collection of n distributed agents in th...
Abstract—In this paper, we introduce the cellphonebased indirect sensing problem. While participatory sensing aims at monitoring of a phenomenon by deploying a dense set of senso...
Murat Demirbas, Carole Rudra, Atri Rudra, Murat Al...
This paper investigates the role of humor in non-task oriented (topic restriction free) human-computer dialogue, as well as the correlation between humor and emotions elicited by i...
Pawel Dybala, Michal Ptaszynski, Rafal Rzepka, Ken...