We study competitive positioning and pricing strategies in markets where consumers seek variety. Variety seeking behavior is modeled as an increase in the willingness-to-pay for t...
Abstract. This paper describes our work on the design and development of a spoken dialog system, which uses synthesized speech of various different Viennese varieties. In a previo...
Michael Pucher, Friedrich Neubarth, Dietmar Schabu...
The fundamental relations that underlie cognitive comparisons--"same" and "different"--can be demultiple levels of abstraction, which vary in relational comple...
Automata models of learning systems introduced in the 1960s were popularized as learning automata (LA) in a survey paper in 1974 [1]. Since then, there have been many fundamental a...
Given a graph where increasing the weight of an edge has a nondecreasing convex piecewise linear cost, we study the problem of finding a minimum cost increase of the weights so tha...