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ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
An embodied conversational agent as a lifestyle advisor
Persistent Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) can be used to assist users in their daily activities. We introduce the Health and Fitness Companion (HFC), which is a conversation...
Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Zhang, Marc Cav...
NIPS
1993
15 years 8 months ago
Using Local Trajectory Optimizers to Speed Up Global Optimization in Dynamic Programming
Dynamic programming provides a methodology to develop planners and controllers for nonlinear systems. However, general dynamic programming is computationally intractable. We have ...
Christopher G. Atkeson
ICDE
2007
IEEE
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16 years 8 months ago
SIGOPT: Using Schema to Optimize XML Query Processing
There has been a great deal of work in recent years on processing and optimizing queries against XML data. Typically in these previous works, schema information is not considered,...
Stelios Paparizos, Jignesh M. Patel, H. V. Jagadis...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
SiteLens: situated visualization techniques for urban site visits
Urban designers and urban planners often conduct site visits prior to a design activity to search for patterns or better understand existing conditions. We introduce SiteLens, an ...
Sean White, Steven Feiner
CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Workload-aware trie indices for XML
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...
Yuqing Wu, Sofia Brenes, Hyungdae Yi