In order to develop intelligent systems that attain the trust of their users, it is important to understand how users perceive such systems and develop those perceptions over time...
Joe Tullio, Anind K. Dey, Jason Chalecki, James Fo...
We introduce the concept of neutral emergence (defined by analogy to an information theoretic view of neutral evolution), and discuss how it might be used in the engineering of ro...
Dynamic environments represent a quite complex domain, where the information available changes continuously. In this paper, a contingency response system for dynamic environments c...
This paper presents strategies and lessons learned from the use of natural language annotations to facilitate question answering in the START information access system.
We present a new approach to dealing with default information based on the theory of belief functions. Our semantic structures, inspired by Adams' -semantics, are epsilon-beli...
Salem Benferhat, Alessandro Saffiotti, Philippe Sm...