In this paper, we introduce the problem of denoting and deriving the complexity of workflows (plans, schedules) in collaborative, planner-assisted settings where humans and agents are trying to jointly solve a task. The interactions – and hence the workflows that connect the human and the agents – may differ according to the domain and the kind of agents. We adapt insights from prior work in hu...

Scalable streaming has emerged as a feasible solution to resolve users' heterogeneity problems. Scalable Video Streaming (SVC) is the technology that has served as the definitive impulse for the growth of streaming adaptive systems. Systems need to incorporate user's Quality of Experience (QoE) in the layer switching algorithms. This paper characterizes the relation between human decisions and ...

Automated metrics such as BLEU are widely used in the machine translation literature. They have also been used recently in the dialogue community for evaluating dialogue response generation. However, previous work in dialogue response generation has shown that these metrics do not correlate strongly with human judgment in the non task-oriented dialogue setting. Task-oriented dialogue responses ...

Metrics and measures for physical phenomena are precisely defined and widely accepted. However, metrics and measures for intelligent systems are as yet vaguely defined and controversial. Even the definition of intelligence is not widely agreed upon. A number of metrics and measures have been developed for measuring human performance in scholastic aptitude, athletic ability, and task performance...

Microarrays have become a routine tool for biomedical research. Data quality assessment is an essential part of the analysis, but it is still not easy to perform objectively or in an automated manner, and as a result it is often neglected. Here, we compared two strategies of array-level quality control using five publicly available microarray experiments: outlier removal and array weights. We a...

It is the position of American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) that all inpatient interdisciplinary teams include a diabetes educator to lead or support improvement efforts that affect patients hospitalized with diabetes or hyperglycemia. This not only encompasses patient and family education but education of interdisciplinary team members and achievement of diabetes-related organizati...

In overlay networks, both local and long-distance links appear as a single hop to a routing protocol. Traditional routing metrics (based on hop count or packet loss) fail to take the differences between such links into account. In this paper, we study a metric based on packet delay that has been designed to improve routing in overlay networks. We show a lightweight technique for measuring delay...

In this paper, we describe a modeling framework which allows us to reason about the social-cultural behavior of humans in interaction scenarios. The objective is to provide explanatory and predictive power to an agent or robot which either witnesses or participates in the interaction: why have the human agents behaved the way they are and what kind of behavior can I expect as an answer to certa...

Background Growing evidence shows that hospitals are increasingly employing physicians. Objective To examine changes in U.S. acute care hospitals that reported employment relationships with their physicians and to determine whether quality of care improved after the hospitals switched to this integration model. Design Retrospective cohort study of U.S. acute care hospitals between 2003 and ...