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CSL
2010
Springer
15 years 24 days ago
Bayesian update of dialogue state: A POMDP framework for spoken dialogue systems
This paper describes a statistically motivated framework for performing real-time dialogue state updates and policy learning in a spoken dialogue system. The framework is based on...
Blaise Thomson, Steve Young
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
The SMART way to migrate replicated stateful services
Many stateful services use the replicated state machine approach for high availability. In this approach, a service runs on multiple machines to survive machine failures. This pap...
Jacob R. Lorch, Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky, Ron...
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ICDAR
2003
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Optimizing the Number of States, Training Iterations and Gaussians in an HMM-based Handwritten Word Recognizer
In off-line handwriting recognition, classifiers based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) have become very popular. However, while there exist well-established training algorithms, s...
Simon Günter, Horst Bunke
DSN
2007
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Web Services Wind Tunnel: On Performance Testing Large-Scale Stateful Web Services
New versions of existing large-scale web services such as Passport.com© have to go through rigorous performance evaluations in order to ensure a high degree of availability. Perf...
Marcelo De Barros, Jing Shiau, Chen Shang, Kenton ...
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ICDCSW
2005
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
State Checksum and Its Role in System Stabilization
Although a self-stabilizing system that suffers from a transient fault is guaranteed to converge to a legitimate state after a finite number of steps, the convergence can be slow ...
Chin-Tser Huang, Mohamed G. Gouda