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2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Experimental assessment of the effectiveness of synthetic personae for multi-modal e-retail applications
This paper details results of an experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and user acceptability of human-like synthetic agents in a multi-modal electronic retail scen...
Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J...
IAT
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Using Negotiation to Reduce Redundant Autonomous Mobile Program Movements
Distributed load managers exhibit thrashing where tasks are repeatedly moved between locations due to incomplete global load information. This paper shows that systems of Autonomou...
Natalia Chechina, Peter King, Phil Trinder
USENIX
2004
15 years 7 months ago
Making the "Box" Transparent: System Call Performance as a First-Class Result
For operating system intensive applications, the ability of designers to understand system call performance behavior is essential to achieving high performance. Conventional perfo...
Yaoping Ruan, Vivek S. Pai
AMMA
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
A Market-Based Approach to Multi-factory Scheduling
Abstract. In this paper, we report on the design of a novel market-based approach for decentralised scheduling across multiple factories. Specifically, because of the limitations ...
Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Alex Rogers, Douglas K. M...
IAT
2008
IEEE
16 years 26 days ago
Generating Personalized Summaries Using Publicly Available Web Documents
Many Knowledge workers are increasingly using online resources to find out latest developments in their specialty and articles of interest. To extract relevant information from s...
Chandan Kumar, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma