We present a field study of police SWAT teams for the purpose of enabling grounded design of a system to coordinate distributed field robots. The mission-oriented, spatially distr...
There have been numerous attempts to provide a standardized definition of a computational agent, but little consensus has emerged. We propose a simple test for agenthood that can ...
Resource aware operation of sensor networks requires adaptive re-organization to dynamically adapt to the operational environment. A complex dynamical system of interacting compone...
We investigate the clarification strategies exhibited by a hybrid POMDP dialog manager based on data obtained from a phone-based user study. The dialog manager combines task struc...
Sebastian Varges, Silvia Quarteroni, Giuseppe Ricc...
On-line decision making often involves query processing over time-varying data which arrives in the form of data streams from distributed locations. In such environments typically...