This paper is motivated by a simple question: what are the energy consumption characteristics of mobile storage alternatives? To answer this question, we are faced with a design s...
Fengzhou Zheng, Nitin Garg, Sumeet Sobti, Chi Zhan...
As systems such as peer-to-peer, Web Services, and Grid systems proliferate the Internet there have also been a significant increase in the number of devices that are networked to...
Shrideep Pallickara, Geoffrey Fox, Marlon E. Pierc...
Scheduling, routing, and layout tasks are examples of hard operations-research problems that have broad application in industry. Typical algorithms for these problems combine some...
David Anderson, Emily Anderson, Neal Lesh, Joe Mar...
Modern approaches in software development propose the use of software architectures to help handle the complexity of large software system developments. An important technique to ...
This paper describes a novel method by which a dialogue agent can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy. While it is widely agreed that dialogue strategies should be formul...
Marilyn A. Walker, Jeanne Frommer, Shrikanth Naray...