End-to-end evaluations of conversational dialogue systems with naive users are currently uncovering severe usability problems that result in low task completion rates. Preliminary...
: This paper describes a Conceptual Framework underpinning "Systems that Care" in terms of educational systems that take account of motivation, metacognition and affect, ...
Benedict du Boulay, Katerina Avramides, Rosemary L...
The growing number of storage security breaches as well as the need to adhere to government regulations is driving the need for greater storage protection. However, there is the l...
Ragib Hasan, Suvda Myagmar, Adam J. Lee, William Y...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
With current trends towards moving variability from hardware to software, and given the increasing desire to postpone design decisions as much as is economically feasible, managin...
Rabih Bashroush, Ivor T. A. Spence, Peter Kilpatri...