Statistical user simulation is an efficient and effective way to train and evaluate the performance of a (spoken) dialog system. In this paper, we design and evaluate a modular da...
This paper explores search behavior of online shoppers. Information economics literature suggests that search cost in electronic markets has essentially been reduced to zero as co...
The present paper presents a Markov Chain model of polling in noisy multi-hop systems typical of Power Line Communications (PLC) as well as of other systems. The model includes the...
To achieve the goalof realizingobject adaptationto environments, a new role-based model Epsilon and a language EpsilonJ is proposed. In Epsilon, an environment is defined as a fie...
Code model checking of software components suffers from the well-known problem of state explosion when applied to highly parallel components, despite the fact that a single compon...