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ACL
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Mixture Model POMDPs for Efficient Handling of Uncertainty in Dialogue Management
In spoken dialogue systems, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a formal framework for making dialogue management decisions under uncertainty, but effi...
James Henderson, Oliver Lemon
TRIDENTCOM
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Managing Distributed Applications Using Gush
Deploying and controlling experiments running on a distributed set of resources is a challenging task. Software developers often spend a significant amount of time dealing with the...
Jeannie Albrecht, Danny Yuxing Huang
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
On Data-Centric Trust Establishment in Ephemeral Ad Hoc Networks
—We argue that the traditional notion of trust as a relation among entities, while useful, becomes insufficient for emerging data-centric mobile ad hoc networks. In these system...
Maxim Raya, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Virgil D. G...
EXPDB
2006
ACM
16 years 19 days ago
A Reproducible Benchmark for P2P Retrieval
With the growing popularity of information retrieval (IR) in distributed systems and in particular P2P Web search, a huge number of protocols and prototypes have been introduced i...
Thomas Neumann, Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel,...
QEST
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
On the Impact of Modelling Choices for Distributed Information Spread
—We consider a distributed shuffling algorithm for sharing data in a distributed network. Nodes executing the algorithm periodically contact each other and exchange data. The be...
Rena Bakhshi, Ansgar Fehnker