E S I N C E it got under way, the Farmington Plan has been regarded, and has repeatedly been cited, as one of the most important, most enlightened, and most hopeful instances of interlibrary cooperation in the history of American libraries. Throughout its ten years of operation, however, there has been a relatively small but persistent stream of complaints from participating libraries together ...

This paper discusses plan presentation, the second phase in usertailored advice giving. Its main task is to determine what knowledge must be provided to ascertain that the user comprehends the plan and is able to perform it, even if he detects unexpected obstacles. Plan presentation is guided by a model of the user’s knowledge and of his capabilities to perform actions in the domain. Finally we...

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The bin packing problem is a well-studied combinatorial NP-hard problem. In the bin packing problem, a sequence of items are packed into bins, the packed items in a bin do not overlap. The objective is to minimize the number of used bins. The size of each item should be no more than the size of a bin. (Zhang, 2011) The algorithms can be divided into two categories: offline algorithm, requiring ...

This document presents the working plan for a STSM submitted by Jean-Julien Filatriau at InfoMus Lab, DIST-University of Genova, Italy. J-J Filatriau is PhD student at Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium), under the co-supervision of Dr. Benoit Macq (UCL) and Dr. Daniel Arfib (LMA-CNRS, Marseille, France). His PhD deals with the gestural control of sonic textures synthesis; from now,...

Decades ago Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, " We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. " We now live in what has been christened a " new gilded age. " Wealth in the United States is indeed concentrated in the hands of a few— more so than at any time since the 1920s. In this book I examine the rela...

A plan recognition architecture is presented which exploits application-specific heuristic knowledge to quickly focus the search to a small set of plausible plan interpretations from the very large set of possible interpretations. The heuristic knowledge is formalized for use in a truth maintenance system where interpretation assumptions and their heuristic justifications are recorded. By forma...

Active Networks o er the ability to program the network on a per-router, per-user, or even per-packet basis. Unfortunately, this added programmability compromises the security of the system by allowing a wider range of potential attacks. Any feasible Active Network architecture therefore requires strong security guarantees. Of course, we would like these guarantees to come at the lowest possibl...

One exciting promise of ubiquitous computing is that increased fidelity in natural world sensing will enable computers to better serve people via responsive or anticipatory behavior. We believe better behavioral modeling of users can play an important role in helping to make this possible. We propose the technique of planaware behavioral modeling to reason about deviations between a user’s inte...