Integrating complex enterprise systems is challenging and reliability and performance of the integrated systems can be problematic when using typical solutions of distributed tran...
John C. Grundy, Jun Bai, John Blackham, John G. Ho...
We discuss what constitutes an integrated system in AI, and why AI researchers should be interested in building and studying them. Taking integrated systems to be ones that integr...
The inherent difficulty in supporting human usability in large control systems--such as building environmental and security systems--derives from the large diversity of components...
Robin R. Penner, Erik S. Steinmetz, Christopher L....
This paper describes a novel method by which a dialogue agent can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy. While it is widely agreed that dialogue strategies should be formul...
Marilyn A. Walker, Jeanne Frommer, Shrikanth Naray...
The open-source rsync utility reduces the time and bandwidth required to update a file across a network. Rsync uses an interactive protocol that detects changes in a file and se...