In this paper, we describe the development of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) implementing the concept of a companion, i.e. an agent supporting the persistent representatio...
Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Z...
We present a framework for solving multistage pure 0–1 programs for a widely used sequencing and scheduling problem with uncertainty in the objective function coefficients, the...
Antonio Alonso-Ayuso, Laureano F. Escudero, M. Ter...
This paper investigates the strategic decisions of online vendors for offering different mechanism, such as sampling and online reviews of information products, to increase their ...
Current search mechanisms of DHT-based P2P systems can well handle a single keyword search problem. Other than single keyword search, multi-keyword search is quite popular and use...
Hanhua Chen, Hai Jin, Jiliang Wang, Lei Chen 0002,...
A large fraction of the URLs on the web contain duplicate (or near-duplicate) content. De-duping URLs is an extremely important problem for search engines, since all the principal...