Demand responsive transport services are systems that assign users’ specific transport requests to different vehicles enabled to fulfill the required service. In order to contai...
The contribution of intelligent agents for the human team performance is a challenging problem. This paper introduces a study to help clarifying this issue, starting with the moti...
XML and Web services are revolutioning the automatic management of distributed information, somewhat in the same way that HTML, Web browsers and search engines modified human acce...
We present a new technique for constructing and analyzing couplings to bound the convergence rate of finite Markov chains. Our main theorem is a generalization of the path couplin...
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2004 Web and Terabyte tracks. For the web track, we employ mixture language models based on document full-text, incoming anchortext, and...