This paper examines the lexical entrainment of real users in the Let's Go spoken dialog system. First it presents a study of the presence of entrainment in a year of human-tr...
Some systems interact with their environment at physically distributed interfaces, called ports, and in testing such a system it is normal to place a tester at each port. Each test...
A parallel simulated annealing algorithm to solve the vehicle routing problem with time windows is presented. The objective is to find the best possible solutions to some wellkno...
The paper uses a case example to present a novel way of building enterprise information systems. The objective is to bring forth the benefits of an item centric systems design in ...
Many real problems dealing with qualitative aspects use linguistic approaches to assess such aspects. In most of these problems, a uniform and symmetrical distribution of the lingu...
Francisco Herrera, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Luis Ma...