This paper describes an animated conversational agent called Kare1 which integrates a talking head interface with a linguistically motivated human-machine dialogue system. The age...
Due to the ever-widening performance gap between processors and disks, I/O operations tend to become the major performance bottleneck of data-intensive applications on modern clus...
Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Xiao Qin, Dan Feng, David ...
A population of virtual robots is evolved to perform the task of competitively painting the floor of a toroidal room. Two robots are present in any given room and paint using dis...
Dan Ashlock, Elizabeth Blankenship, Jonathan Gandr...
The complexity of the global organization and internal structures of motifs in higher eukaryotic organisms raises significant challenges for motif detection techniques. To achiev...
Eric P. Xing, Wei Wu, Michael I. Jordan, Richard M...
We revisit the problem of supertasking in Pfair-scheduled multiprocessor systems. In this approach, a set of tasks, called component tasks, is assigned to a server task, called a ...