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PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
PKDD
2009
Springer
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16 years 1 months ago
Feature Selection for Value Function Approximation Using Bayesian Model Selection
Abstract. Feature selection in reinforcement learning (RL), i.e. choosing basis functions such that useful approximations of the unkown value function can be obtained, is one of th...
Tobias Jung, Peter Stone
CANDC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Nature of creative analogies in biologically inspired innovative design
Analogy is a fundamental process of creativity. Biologically inspired design by definition entails crossdomain analogies, and in practice has led to many innovative designs. Thus,...
Swaroop Vattam, Michael E. Helms, Ashok K. Goel
COMPGEOM
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Computing hereditary convex structures
Color red and blue the n vertices of a convex polytope P in R3 . Can we compute the convex hull of each color class in o(n log n)? What if we have χ > 2 colors? What if the co...
Bernard Chazelle, Wolfgang Mulzer
COMPGEOM
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Minimum cuts and shortest homologous cycles
We describe the first algorithms to compute minimum cuts in surface-embedded graphs in near-linear time. Given an undirected graph embedded on an orientable surface of genus g, w...
Erin W. Chambers, Jeff Erickson, Amir Nayyeri