One of the key factors for success in object based load distribution is to determine the right granularity for the load distribution facility. This granularity should be fine enough to prevent the occurrenceof major load imbalances, but on the same time coarse enough to ensure that the performance gained by load distribution exceeds the overhead of distribution. This paper addresses this issue ...

The cognitive dissonance theory is one of the major theory of consistency in psychology. This papper adapt it to a distributed framework. Then, it shows how this theory could be use to solve common problems and answer critical questions in agent communication theory. Actualy, this theory allow us to define consistency measure wich could help decision making in MAS. MOTS-CLÉS : communication ent...

This CFAsT demonstration focuses on “how to design and develop a dialogue system with a minimal effort”. This virtual assistant embeds a novel model for automatic generation of dialogue systems built from contents. This approach is similar to and relies on a search engine, but with augmented dialogue capabilities : at each dialogue turn, the system propose three keywords, in order to optimise t...

We present the multi-structured documents problem and offer an overview of existing solutions. We then notice that they do not consider the problem of constructing such documents. So we use our experience with philosophers who are building a digital edition of the work of Jean-Toussaint Desanti, so as to propose a methodology for construction of multi-structured documents. The latter is based o...

In this paper, we present the user modeling domain, its current and possible uses. We describe our urban guidance system for the impaired user, and discuss the possible bene ts of using user modeling for three of its components. We present two possible approaches for user modeling, our environment modeling. Then we conclude and present our future work. MOTS-CLÉS : adaptation, aide au déplacemen...

Cette recherche a pour objectifs d’identifier les compétences professionnelles développées par des étudiants ayant suivi le programme de maîtrise en éducation avec spécialisation administration scolaire l’Université Saint-Boniface et distinguer conditions facilitantes inhibantes au transfert apprentissages. Pour ce faire, cette utilise une méthodologie qualitative centrée sur journal bord l’ent...

La lutte contre la prolifération des rats est toujours une préoccupation de santé publique. Entre les deux guerres mondiales Adrien Loir, neveu Pasteur, a utilisé avec succès chats ratiers pour se débarrasser ville et du port Havre. Après avoir fait l’objet nombreux articles dans presse années 1930, ce mode offensif été mystérieusement oublié. Tout comme mérites d’Adrien Loir qui un collaborate...

Sequencing is an indispensable decision-making process during information flows. This paper proposes the conceptualization of sequencing to understand how and why information senders prioritize some network members when they communicate with others. We examine the usefulness of this conceptualization with data collected from GRAND, a scholarly network. The concept of sequencing enables research...

In this report we present the work done on the first subtask of the DEFT 2014 challenge which dealt with genre classification of French literary texts. In our approach we developed three types of features : lemmatized words, stylometric features and features that incorporate some form of world knowledge. Subsequent classification experiments were performed using the Balanced Winnow classifier. ...

This article presents the results of a reflection on collaborative design of geographical objects. A multi-disciplinary group interacted depending on their cultural and scientific field. This group designed the architecture and the services for an acquisition and conception tool. We apply this research to the analysis of a game in order to define a territory and to elaborate a share representat...