In this paper we propose a new approach (based on the Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model of Joreskog and Goldberger (1975)) to assess the performance of firms assuming that the „true‟ firm performance is latent but there are many observable indicators of it. In our MIMIC model, the latent firm performance variable is linked with some observed explanatory variables (determinants) li...

This paper describes MIMIC, an adaptive mixed initiative spoken dialogue system that provides movie showtime information. MIMIC improves upon previous dialogue systems in two respects. First, it employs initiative-oriented strategy adaptation to automatically adapt response generation strategies based on the cumulative effect of information dynamically extracted from user utterances during the ...

This paper introduces a versatile language for specifying facial animations. The language Mimic can be used together with any facial animation system that employs animation parameters varying over time to control the animation. In addition to the automatic alignment of individual actions, the user can fine-tune the temporal alignment of actions relatively to each other. A set of predefined func...