We investigate the expressiveness of existing XML keyword search semantics and propose Meaningful Connected Network (MCN) as a new semantics to capture meaningful relationships of ...
Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Xiaofeng...
Virtual agents designed to establish relationships with more than one user must be able to identify and distinguish among those users with high reliability. We descr...
Daniel Schulman, Mayur Sharma, Timothy W. Bickmore
In DHT-based P2P systems, Replication-based content distribution and load balancing strategies consists of such decisions as which files should be replicated, how many replicas sh...
Bassam A. Alqaralleh, Chen Wang, Bing Bing Zhou, A...
Designing efficient bidding strategies for sequential auctions remains an important, open problem area in agent-mediated electronic markets. In existing literature, a variety of bi...
In human-human conversation, people use linguistic expressions that are flexibly tailored to context as a matter of course, and they expect their conversational partners to do lik...