Existing studies in conversational AI mostly treat task-oriented dialog (TOD) and question answering (QA) as separate tasks. Towards the goal of constructing a agent that can complete user tasks support information seeking, it is important to develop system handle both TOD QA with access various external knowledge sources. In this work, we propose new task, Open-Book (OB-TOD), which combines ex...

Future wireless communications aim to meet multifarious quality-of-experience (QoE) requirements for emerging applications, such as autonomous driving, personalized healthcare, and the Internet-of-Everything (IoE). In particular, in human-computer interaction scenarios, humans may simultaneously control multiple IoE devices using speech augmented/ virtual reality commands, thus, making communic...

Abstract This study examined how to improve students’ regulation of task-oriented reading (TOR). TOR encompasses and information processing needed perform a specific task. Previous studies suggest students can benefit from collaboration script enhance socially shared TOR. The elicits discussions about task perception, strategy selection, reflection. aimed examine the depth sharedness metacognit...

The purpose of this research was to analyze EFL writing tasks in two of the most popular English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) exam preparation courses in Iran, namely IELTS and TOEFL. Having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, we asked 60 learner participants to rate EFL writing tasks in 3 IELTS and 3...

Task farming is often used to enable parameter sweep for exploration of large sets of initial conditions for large scale complex simulations. Such applications occur very often in life sciences. Available solutions enable to perform parameter sweep by creating multiple job submissions with different parameters. This paper presents an approach to farm workflows, employing service oriented paradi...

This paper addresses the task allocation problem in an open, dynamic grid environments and service-oriented environments. In such environments, both grid/service providers and consumers can be modelled as intelligent agents. These agents can leave and enter the environment freely at any time. Task allocation under time constraints becomes a challenging issue in such environments because it is d...