All species face adaptive problems that need to be solved in order for an organism to survive and reproduce. The adaptations that have emerged to overcome these problems are designed by natural selection and are often specific to the environment in which they evolved. For the majority of our hominid ancestors living and evolving on the Savannah plains of Africa, it is thought that among the mos...

It has long been recognized that users can have complex preferences on plans. Non-intrusive learning of such preferences by observing the plans executed by the user is an attractive idea. Unfortunately, the executed plans are often not a true representation of user preferences, as they result from the interaction between user preferences and feasibility constraints. In the travel planning scena...

We prove the existence and the invariance of a Gibbs measure associated to the defocusing sub-quintic Nonlinear Schrödinger equations on the disc of the plane R 2. We also prove an estimate giving some intuition to what may happen in 3 dimensions. Résumé. On démontre l'existence et l'invariance d'une mesure de Gibbs par le flot de l'´ equation de Schrödinger non linéaire posée sur le disque du ...

We prove the existence and the invariance of a Gibbs measure associated to the defocusing sub-quintic Nonlinear Schrödinger equations on the disc of the plane R 2. We also prove an estimate giving some intuition to what may happen in 3 dimensions. Résumé. On démontre l'existence et l'invariance d'une mesure de Gibbs par le flot de l'´ equation de Schrödinger non linéaire posée sur le disque du ...

This paper proposes a new dialogue control method for spoken dialogue systems. The method configures a dialogue plan so as to minimize the estimated number of turns to complete the dialogue. The number of turns is estimated depending on the current speech recognition accuracy and probability distribution of the true user’s request. The proposed method reduces the number of turns to complete the...

Poverty alleviation lies at the very core of a strong and resilient ASEAN SocioCultural Community (ASCC). ASEAN Member Countries therefore strive, individually and collectively, to address the fundamental issue of poverty in the region. Embedded in the VAP 2004-2010, the ASCC Plan of Action sets the goal of building an ASEAN community of caring societies through among others accelerating the go...

Achieving a fully automated and dynamic system in critical infrastructure scenarios is an open issue in ongoing research. Generally, decisions in SCADA systems require a manual intervention, that in most of the cases is performed by highly experienced operators. In this paper we propose a framework consisting of a proactive management software that aims at anticipating the occurrence of potenti...

This paper presents preliminary results of our work with a major financial company, where we try to use methods of plan recognition in order to investigate the interactions of a costumer with the company’s online interface. In this paper, we present the first steps of integrating a plan recognition algorithm in a real-world application for detecting and analyzing the interactions of a costumer....

This article surveys the history of Cyprus’s conflict and partition to derive historical, tactical, and strategic lessons about how the Cyprus problem should be resolved and about the value of partitions more generally. Cyprus is complex. Tensions between North and South are very low, in part because the partition has been a cause of peace. However, both sides remain pervaded by antagonistic an...

Your desire to try to make up for the "lost ground" is understandable. However, no scientific research backs the idea that one can physically grow substantially taller after the completion of puberty by altering what one eats. Also, there's a good chance that your eating plan (depending upon how strict a vegetarian you were) during your teenage years probably did not inhibit your height growth,...