It is recognized in Ambient Intelligence that ambient devices should be modeled as intelligent autonomous components rather than passive information sources. The agent paradigm sui...
Spoken dialogue management strategy optimization by means of Reinforcement Learning (RL) is now part of the state of the art. Yet, there is still a clear mismatch between the comp...
This paper presents an agenda-based user simulator which has been extended to be trainable on real data with the aim of more closely modelling the complex rational behaviour exhib...
The use of topological features, more specifically, the importance of an element related to its structural position is a subject widely studied. For instance, complex networks theo...
Eduardo M. R. Oliveira, Heitor S. Ramos, Antonio A...
The Sensor Web as an open complex adaptive system exhibits many characteristic that are common to selforganising systems. One of the characteristics of the Sensor Web is that of s...