Accessing data stored in persistent memory represents a bottleneck for current visual exploration applications. Semantic caching of frequent queries at the client-side along with prefetching can improve performance of such systems. However, a prefetching setup that only uses one prefetching strategy may be insufficient because (1) different users have different exploration patterns, and (2) a u...

In a human-computer dialogue system, the dialogue strategy can range from very restrictive to highly flexible. Each specific dialogue style has its pros and cons and a dialogue system needs to select the most appropriate style for a given user. During the course of interaction, the dialogue style can change based on a user’s response and the system observation of the user. This allows a dialogu...

Differential Evolution is a popular powerful optimization algorithm for continuous problems. Part of its efficiency comes from the availability of several mutation strategies that can (and must) be chosen in a problem-dependent way. However, such flexibility also makes DE difficult to be automatically used in a new context. F-AUC-Bandit is a comparison-based Adaptive Operator Selection method t...

Cloud service selection with multi-type cloud computing resources is a novel research and catching increasing attention. To help users efficiently select and integrate their desired cloud services, the agent-based computing paradigm has emerged. In this work, we propose an intermediary service agent model called ISAM which lets each intermediary service agent manage some clustered cloud service...

Next generation mobile networks (4G) is expected to integrate a large number of wireless technologies. However, this integration yields many challenges such as those pertaining to handoff triggering and decision making. Various approaches have been proposed to solve these problems, yet handoff initiation and network destination selection remain critical issues which are widely based on RSS (Rec...

The transmission performances of Bluetooth 2.0+EDR specification are analyzed, including average maximum throughput under different channel quality. A new adaptive select strategy based on the history of the packets errors is suggested. The channel quality is estimated by the packet error statistics of recent transmission packets. The type of next packet need to send is judged and can be adjust...

pulmonary hypertension syndrome (ascites) is a metabolic disorder in fast-growing broilers. inconsistency of oxygen requirement and the cardiovascular ability make the birds susceptible to ascites. incidence of ascites was accompanied by right ventricular hypertrophy, fluid accumulation in the abdominal cavity and finally mortality. the objective of the current study was to review the genetic b...

to investigate how the buying behavior of firms work is always needed, since it is an every changing process influenced by many forces in its surroundings. industrial firms tend to have a smaller number of customers which means that they are easier to identify than customers in consumer markets. effective marketing strategy relies on understanding consumers and their needs. this understanding m...

Best response structure of n-person binary coordination games suggests that equilibrium selection outcome is determined by the balance of the ordinal aspects and the cardinal aspects of the game. This intuition inspires new equilibrium selection results for that class of games under the adaptive play with mistakes. Detailed comparison of the adaptive play and the single population random matchi...