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The Staging Transformation Approach To Mixing Initiative, Robert Capra, Michael Narayan, Saverio Perugini, Naren Ramakrishnan, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Mixed-initiative interaction is an important facet of many conversational interfaces, flexible planning architectures, intelligent tutoring systems, and interactive information retrieval systems. Software systems for mixed-initiative interaction must enable us to both operationalize the mixing of initiative (i.e., support the creation of practical dialogs) and to reason in real-time about how a flexible mode of interaction can be supported (e.g., from a meta-dialog standpoint). In this paper, we present the staging transformation approach to mixing initiative, where a dialog script captures the structure of the dialog and dialog control processes are realized through generous use of program transformation techniques (e.g., partial …

The Partial Evaluation Approach To Information Personalization, Naren Ramakrishnan, Saverio Perugini

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Information personalization refers to the automatic adjustment of information content, structure, and presentation tailored to an individual user. By reducing information overload and customizing information access, personalization systems have emerged as an important segment of the Internet economy. This paper presents a systematic modeling methodology— PIPE (‘Personalization is Partial Evaluation’) — for personalization. Personalization systems are designed and implemented in PIPE by modeling an information-seeking interaction in a programmatic representation. The representation supports the description of information-seeking activities as partial information and their subsequent realization by partial evaluation, a technique for specializing programs. We describe the modeling methodology at a …

Development Of A Networked Interactive Information Environment Within A National Park, John Clifton

Theses

For the most part, the Killarney National Park (KNP) currently disseminates information to visitors in paper format and by word of mouth in a non-coherent fashion. Society as a whole is moving towards an Information Age delivered through an electronic medium. This project aims to facilitate the KNP in delivering a new electronically presented information experience to its global visitors.

Electronic media facilitate the delivery of in-depth multimedia as well as multilingual information. This information will be made available on demand to visitors and delivered through a variety of media including information points and handheld devices to facilitate the various …

Webtv, Soon Hing Leong

Student Works (2000-2009)

This graduation project report was a partial requirement of the Bachelor Degree of Information Technology. This project focused on the testing and implementation of streaming multimedia files using multicast and unicast technology through Local Area Network with conserving network resources. It is also an effort being carried out to provide a multimedia and interactive base entertainment system for Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology. Multimedia has become a popular catchword during the last few years. The idea behind a multimedia network is a single network combining an improving all current technologies that realizes fast and convenient access for the …

Traffic Scheduling And Link Sharing Mechanisms For Controlled Load Service, Yun Choong Chin

Student Works (2000-2009)

The project studies and develops a simulator based on the link-sharing and traffic scheduling mechanism for Controlled Load service. The simulation adopts some of the features of the Class Based Queueing. The main factors that determine whether a packet scheduling algorithm is able to support integrated services or differentiated services on Internet is the ability to provide bandwidth guarantee. It is important to provide guarantee for minimum bandwidth when there are enough demands to ensure competing data flows do· not degrade each others' performance. The objective of this project is to observe the performance of the link-sharing and traffic scheduling …

Personalizing The Gams Cross-Index, Saverio Perugini, Priya Lakshminarayanan, Naren Ramakrishnan

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The NIST Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS) system at http://gams.nist .gov serves as the gateway to thousands of scientific codes and modules for numerical computation. We describe the PIPE personalization facility for GAMS, whereby content from the cross-index is specialized for a user desiring software recommendations for a specific problem instance. The key idea is to (i) mine structure, and (ii) exploit it in a programmatic manner to generate personalized web pages. Our approach supports both content-based and collaborative personalization and enables information integration from multiple (and complementary) web resources. We present case studies for the domain of linear, …

Sistem Kenali Diri, Mohamed Mohd Nor Zaini

Student Works (2000-2009)

Perkembangan teknologi dan ledakan maklumat yang berlaku akhir-akhir ini telah menyaksikan pembangunan teknologi maklumat dan Internet yang lebih drastik. Banyak laman-laman web yang telah dibina untuk menyampaikan maklumat kepada orang ramai. Sistem Kenali Diri merupakan salah satu sistem yang terdapat didalam projek fakulti bagi Fakulti Sains Komputer & Teknologi Maklumat (FSKTM), Universiti Malaya. Sistem ini akan dibangunkan bagi membolehkan mahasiswa FSKTM menggunakannya untuk mendapatkan maklumat mengenai psikologi mereka seperti personaliti, motivasi dan sebagainya, bagi membantu meningkatkan daya belajar mereka. Sistem ini boleh dicapai oleh pelajar dengan menggunakan komputer yang mempunyai sambungan ke Internet. Sistem Kenali diri ini akan mengandungi soalan-soalan …