ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to my advisor, Professor Jim Dai, for his guidance, support, encouragement and patience, and especially for the inspiration that he provided for me throughout my PhD studies. I am deeply indebted to him for his great effort to sharpen my understanding and make the presentation of this dissertation clearer during the time when he most needed rest. and introducing m...

Dynamic constraint satisfaction is a useful tool for representing and solving sequential decision problems with complete knowledge in dynamic world. We propose an extension of the dynamic constraint satisfaction framework so as to represent stochastic events in sequential decision making. The basis of this extension consists in modeling evolution of the dynamic constraint satisfaction problem b...

We present a pipelining, dynamically usercontrollable reorder operator, for use in dataintensive applications. Allowing the user to reorder the data delivery on the fly increases the interactivity in several contexts such as online aggregation and large-scale spreadsheets; it allows the user to control the processing of data by dynamically specifying preferences for different data items based o...

This paper introduces SesaME, a generic dialogue management framework, especially designed for supporting dynamic multidomain dialogue processing. SesaME supports a multitude of highly distributed applications and facilitates simultaneous adaptation to individual users and their environment. The dynamic multi-domain dialogue processing is supported through the use of standardised and highly dis...

Abstract : In this paper we show that a complex dynamic representation (logenvelope and instantaneous frequency) can be used efficiently to compress the spectrum and band−shift a discrete−time signal. The original method and algorithm conceived here do not violate the amplitude−phase relationships typical of natural sound signals. This is achieved by simultaneous modification via transmapping o...

(a) Identify & add statistical pairs (b) Identify & add noun phrases (c) Identify LCA concepts

The neuron set model based on dynamic neurons is under discussion. The “self-organizing memory” presented by circulating impulses is the principally new net feature. Such a “memory” is supposed to cause “intellectual” behavior of data-processing slot machine. As a rule the slot machine is referred to as a selfoperating process unit. The series of data-processing slot machines processing informa...

Compression is the automatic reduction of gain as the signal level increases beyond a preset level called the threshold. It is an automatic version of “gain riding”, where one might manually lower a fader as the signal grows larger to maintain a more constant output level. For signals above the threshold, the increase in output amplitude for a given increase in input amplitude is known as the c...

Shlomo Zilberstein Computer Science Department University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 U.S.A. [email protected] Abdel-Illah Mouaddib CRIL-IUT de Lens-Universit e d'Artois Rue de l'universit e, S. P. 16 62307 Lens Cedex France [email protected] Abstract Progressive processing is a model of computation that allows a system to tradeo computational resources against the qual...

Eye movements are the most frequent (∼3/s), shortest-latency (∼150-250 ms), and biomechanically simplest (one joint, no inertial complexities) voluntary motor behavior in primates, providing a model system to assess sensorimotor disturbances arising from trauma, fatigue, aging, or disease states. We have developed a 15-min behavioral tracking protocol consisting of randomized Rashbass (1961) st...