: Scientific computations and collaborations increasingly rely on the network to provide high-speed data transfer, dissemination of results, access to instruments, support for comp...
As the search engine arms-race continues, search engines are constantly looking for ways to improve the manner in which they respond to user queries. Given the vagueness of Web sea...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Evelyn Ba...
Designing the dialogue policy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing a di...
Satinder P. Singh, Diane J. Litman, Michael J. Kea...
In this paper we discuss several challenges associated scientific workflow design and management in distributed, heterogeneous environments. Based on our prior work with a number ...
This paper reports our experience with representing and reasoning with context information within the CARE middleware. CARE was developed to support context-aware service adaptati...