Previous dialogue systems have focussed on dia. logues betwe(:n two agents. Many ~q)plications, however, require conversations between several l)articipants. This paper extends speech act deftnit ions to handle mult i -agent conversations, based on a model of mult i -agent belief a t t r ibu t ion with some unique properties. Our approach has |,lie advantage of captur ing a lnnnlmr of interesti...

MOTIVATION Multiple structure alignments are becoming important tools in many aspects of structural bioinformatics. The current explosion in the number of available protein structures demands multiple structural alignment algorithms with an adequate balance of accuracy and speed, for large scale applications in structural genomics, protein structure prediction and protein classification. RESU...

AbstractA wide knowledge base regarding the ecological preferences of benthic macroinvertebrates is synthesized in public databases. This can assist disentangling influence mult...

Functional communication training (FCT) is an established treatment for destructive behavior that missucceeds in about 37% of cases when the reinforcement schedule for the functional communication response (FCR) is thinned using multiples schedules (mult FCT; Hagopian, Boelter, & Jarmolowicz, 2011). In this investigation, we evaluated the use of response restriction FCT (RR FCT) in a cohort of ...

The design and implementation of hybrid symbolic/statistical architectures is a major area of interest in current multimodal system development. Such an architecture attempts to improve multimodal recognition and disambiguation rates by using corpus-based statistics to weight the contributions from various input streams. This is in contrast to current architectures that assume independence betw...

This work describes a new strategy for optimal design of Multiplex-PCR primer sequences. The process is based on the Particle Swarm Optimization-Simplex algorithm (Mult-PSOS). Diverging from previous solutions centered on heuristic tools, the Mult-PSOS is selfconfigured because it does not require the definition of the algorithm's initial search parameters. The successful performance of this me...

One of the most important problems in rule induction methods is how to estimate which method is the best to use in an applied domain. While some methods are useful in some domains, they are not useful in other domains. Therefore it is very difficult to choose one of these methods. For this purpose, we introduce multiple testing based on recursive iteration of resampling methods for rule-inducti...

We propose a mechanism and sys tem f o r the automatic generation of interactive mult imedia presentat ions f r o m their specifications. A presentat ion specifica(5on contains three parts: the resources, the temporal in format ion , and the spatial information. We use a ICON programming technique and a graphical user interface d l o w the presentation designer t o quickly specify what he/sh.e ...

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