This paper describes a novel method by which a spoken dialogue system can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy from its experience interacting with human users. The method...
Knowledge engineering relies on a unified effort of two components for success: 1) a strong expert knowledge back-end, and 2) an effective user interface. We address the latter is...
Victor Chou Hung, Avelino J. Gonzalez, Ronald F. D...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with "strangers". This makes ...
A mirror world, which is a virtual space modeling a physical space, attracts enormous interests from VR community recently. Various applications such as Second Life, Google Earth a...
Though multi-agent systems have been explored in a wide variety of medical settings, their role at the primary care level has been relatively little investigated. In this paper, we...