Reinforcement techniques have been successfully used to maximise the expected cumulative reward of statistical dialogue systems. Typically, reinforcement learning is used to estim...
Indexing and ranking are two key factors for efficient and effective XML information retrieval. Inappropriate indexing may result in false negatives and false positives, and impro...
—Probabilistic topic models were originally developed and utilised for document modeling and topic extraction in Information Retrieval. In this paper we describe a new approach f...
Abstract—In this paper, we address the problem of selfadaptation in internet-scale service-oriented systems. Services need to adapt by select the best neighboring services solely...
Abstract--We investigate an abstraction method, called meanfield method, for the performance evaluation of dynamic networks with pairwise communication between nodes. It allows us ...