The freely available SPaRKy sentence planner uses hand-written weighted rules for sentence plan construction, and a useror domain-specific second-stage ranker for sentence plan selection. However, coming up with sentence plan construction rules for a new domain can be difficult. In this paper, we automatically extract sentence plan construction rules from the RST-DT corpus. In our rules, we use...

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Recommending best-fit rate-plans for new users is a challenge for the Telco industry. Rate-plans differ from most traditional products in the way that a user normally only have one product at any given time. This, combined with no background knowledge on new users hinders traditional recommender systems. Many Telcos today use either trivial approaches, such as picking a random plan or the most ...

In collaborative environments where multiple users interact, determining individual problem-solving contexts that include intent is difficult, even when individual user goals are known. Although intent may be explicit in a sub-context, often it is implicit and must be inferred. Moreover for both implicit and explicit intent or goals, actions to achieve such goals may interact negatively between...

This study is aimed to evaluate the effects of setup errors on dose distribution for target volume and healthy tissue within the irradiated volume and also critical surrounding organs for breast radiotherapy (RT) using both the tangential field and the field-in-field (FIF) technique. Ten patients with breast cancer were enrolled. For each patients two plans were generated; tangential field plan...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a driverless car for populated urban environments. We propose a system that explicitly map the static obstacles, detects and track the moving obstacle, consider the unobserved areas, provide a motion plan with safety guarantees and executes it. All of it was implemented and integrated into a single computer maneuvering on real time an electri...

Queensland Health, a large Australian government agency, implemented a centralised IT service management model based on the ITIL framework. This paper presents an in-depth case study of the implementation. It sheds light on the challenges and breakthroughs, confirms a set of factors that contributed to the project’s success and offers a learning opportunity for other organisations. The study in...

Strategic Environmental Assessment is a procedure aimed at introducing systematic assessment of the environmental effects of plans and programs. This procedure is based on the so called coaxial matrices that define dependencies between plan activities (infrastructures, plants, resource extractions, buildings, etc.) and positive and negative environmental impacts, and dependencies between these ...

When a plan involves hundreds or thousands of events over time it can be di cult or impossible to tell whether those events are unfolding \according to plan" and to assess the impact of dynamic plan modi cations. Pathological states may arise in which goals cannot be attained or are attained too slowly. Plan steering is an agent-based approach to this problem. The agent monitors an unfolding pl...

From perspective of energy security, this study focuses on oil-importing optimal decision based on multi-objective programming approach. Different from other models, country risk is considered as the main objective to minimize risk exposure of importing disruption. What is more, this model connects emergency management with programming, and optimal decisions are solved under different scenarios...