This paper describes an application of APE (the Atlas Planning Engine), an integrated planning and execution system at the heart of the Atlas dialogue management system. APE controls a mixedinitiative dialogue between a human user and a host system, where turns in the ‘conversation’ may include graphical actions and/or written text. APE has full unification and can handle arbitrarily nested dis...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical Allen test, preoperative Doppler ultrasonography, and intraoperative surgical Allen test with postoperative clinical findings in reconstruction of complex head and neck defects using radial forearm free flaps. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Retrospective review of 143 consecutive patients who underwent radial forearm free flap reconstruction from January 1, 19...

Facebook is the most dominant social networking site in colleges right now. According to a recent study done by OnlineEducation.net on college students' use of social media in the U.S., 96 percent of college students use Facebook. In addition, 75 percent of college students report that they want to collaborate online with each other via Facebook (Andrew, 2011). Because of the popularity of Face...

This paper proposes a general discussion of the handling of imprecise and uncertain information in temporal reasoning in the framework of fuzzy sets and possibility theory. The introduction of fuzzy features in temporal reasoning can be related to different issues. First, it can be motivated by the need of a gradual, linguistic-like description of temporal relations even in the face of complete...

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