Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Current state-of?the-art spoken dialog systems are aimed at handling telephone calls to automate incoming caller requests. In this paper we explore a scenario which is symmetric t...
Abstract—In distributed environments, access control decisions depend on statements of multiple agents rather than only one central trusted party. However, existing policy langua...
Abstract— Starting from the situated and embodied perspective on the study of biological cognition as a source of inspiration, this paper programmatically outlines a path towards...
We present a new polynomial-space algorithm, called Adopt, for distributed constraint optimization (DCOP). DCOP is able to model a large class of collaboration problems in multi-a...
Pragnesh Jay Modi, Wei-Min Shen, Milind Tambe, Mak...