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IVA
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Should Agents Speak Like, um, Humans? The Use of Conversational Fillers by Virtual Agents
We describe the design and evaluation of an agent that uses the fillers um and uh in its speech. We describe an empirical study of human-human dialogue, analyzing gaze behavior dur...
Laura M. Pfeifer, Timothy W. Bickmore
ISCC
2000
IEEE
122views Communications» more  ISCC 2000»
15 years 11 months ago
Hierarchical Performance Modeling for Distributed System Architectures
Performance modeling and evaluation techniques are essential when designing and implementing distributed software systems. Constructing performance models for such systems can req...
Debra L. Smarkusky, Reda A. Ammar, Imad Antonios, ...
SIGIR
1998
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Advantages of Query Biased Summaries in Information Retrieval
1 This paper presents an investigation into the utility of document summarisation in the context of information retrieval, more specifically in the application of so called query b...
Anastasios Tombros, Mark Sanderson
RTSS
1996
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Commit processing in distributed real-time database systems
W e investigate here the performance implications of supporting transaction atomicity in a distributed realtime database system. Using a detailed simulation model of a firm-deadli...
Ramesh Gupta, Jayant R. Haritsa, Krithi Ramamritha...
ITS
1992
Springer
120views Multimedia» more  ITS 1992»
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Distributed Learning Companion System: WEST Revisited
This paper describes a distributed learning system which consists of two connected computers so that students can learn in collaboration and/or competition at different locations. ...
Tak-Wai Chan, I-Ling Chung, Rong-Guey Ho, Wen-Juan...