Interfaces to information retrieval (IR) systems increasingly support progressive interactive search formulation and refinement. Part of their aim is to make information retrieval easier for the end user without the need for (or with minimal support from) an information intermediary. One approach to supporting these activities has been to design ‘intelligent’ interfaces that embody some of the ...

Despite being central to many game stories, dynamic social relationships in video games are difficult to make playable in meaningful ways. To help address this issue, this paper presents the Ensemble Engine (EE), the first publicly available “social physics” engine. The Ensemble Engine is inspired by the lessons learned from more than five years building the Comme il Faut (CiF) social physics e...

RÉSUMÉ. La croissance très importante des informations disponibles sur Internet nécessite des outils de recherche de plus en plus performants permettant de discerner efficacement les informations intéressantes parmi des centaines voire des milliers de documents. Seulement, la qualité des résultats fournis par les moteurs de recherche traditionnels n'est pas toujours pertinente surtout quand il ...

A stud y to determine whether there are any significant difTerences in perspectives of IT and business managers wit h regard to the factors which contribute to successfu l strategic ali gnment using Henderson and venkatraman's strategic ali gnment model as the research framework has been rcported .. A general survey was undertaken over a range of industrics and resu lt s indicate th at the two ...

detail exactly how sparse medical care was in Scotland. Even if it were available, the authors show that the stringency of the Scottish Poor Law may have denied access to it. One of their tables (9.B) "shows how much was actually spent on doctors per head of the population on the poor roll. The Scottish average was £0.0 154, or no more than 3.d per pauper per year in the old money" (p. 217). Th...

One of the most frequently used criticism about game theory is that it is based on models in which moves and payoff are fixed in advance. In this paper we introduce a new game theoretic model in which agents can not build good strategies without analysing payoff matrices. In this agents interactions modelling iterated game we show that a well reputed notion of micro-economics, Nash equilibrium,...

English. This paper presents the steps undertaken for building a word formation lexicon for Latin. The types of word formation rules are discussed and the semiautomatic procedure to pair their input and output lexical items is evaluated. An on-line graphical query system to access the lexicon is described as well. Italiano. Questo articolo presenta le procedure di realizzazione di un lessico mo...

This paper demonstrates that multi-agent systems have the capacity to model a region in all its complexity. An example is developed to show that these tools are not only capable of spatializing and distributing the behaviour of individuals, but above all, that they allow individuals to integrate different perceptions of space as well as the constraints imposed on them by a community. A dialecti...

Left corner Parsing for Uni cation Grammars Noriko Tomuro and Steven L Lytinen DePaul University School of Computer Science Telecommunications and Information Systems S Wabash Ave Chicago IL flytinen tomurog cs depaul edu