The FASiL dialogue manager is described in the context of the commercial deployment of conversational interfaces. A practical dia logue model is presented that uses a list-like structure to manage mixed-initiative dialogue using highly modularised, and independently specified dialogue comp onents.

This paper deals with an application of H∞ control attenuating initial-state uncertainties to the magnetic bearing and examines the H∞ control problem, which treats a mixed Disturbance and an Initial state uncertainty Attenuation (DIA) control. The mixed H∞ DIA problem supplies H∞ controls with good transients and assures H∞ controls of robustness against initial-state uncertainty. On the other...

A system for applying local hyperthermia employing ultrasonic transducers with annular focusing lenses gave better temperature uniformity in small fibrosarcomas than conventional unfocused transducers. The lenses were designed for ultrasonic frequencies of 3, 4, 5 and 9 MHz for tumors approximately 6 mm dia. Tests in degassed water indicated that the focusing lenses concentrated approx. 80% of ...

Dynamic Instance Activation (DIA) is a newly developed data-driven classification algorithm. It was designed to minimise the negative impact in situa‐ tions of data incompleteness and inconsistency. To achieve this, the proposed methodology attempts to maximise the accuracy of the classification process in a way that does not compromise the overall computational effort. In this research, DIA wa...