Mashups integrate a set of Web-services and data sources, often referred to as mashlets. We study in this paper a common scenario where these mashlets are components of larger Web...
Peer-to-peer networks are becoming a common form of online data exchange. Querying data, mostly files, using keywords on peer-to-peer networks is well-known. But users cannot perf...
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...
One component of a user's interaction with computer systems is commonly referred to as `flow'. Flow is an important consideration in interactive system design as it enca...
User simulations are shown to be useful in spoken dialog system development. Since most current user simulations deploy probability models to mimic human user behaviors, how to se...