Distributed applications are often built from sets of distributed components that must be co-ordinated in order to achieve some global behaviour. The common approach is to use a c...
This work treats the problem of error-resilient DNA searching via oblivious evaluation of finite automata, formulated as follows: a client has a DNA sequence, and a service provid...
We describe pedagogical and student modeling based on past student interactions with a tutoring system. We model student effort with an integrated view of student behaviors (e.g. t...
Ivon Arroyo, Hasmik Meheranian, Beverly Park Woolf
As microblogging grows in popularity, services like Twitter are coming to support information gathering needs above and beyond their traditional roles as social networks. But most...
Daniel Ramage, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling
In this work we investigate the effects of rephrasing the user's input on two mobile spoken dialogue systems. We argue that for specific kinds of applications it's impor...