Pratyush Kumar

TL;DR: It is found that a conversational agent has the potential to effectively meet the information needs of farmers at scale and could inform future work on designing conversational agents for user populations with limited literacy and technology experience.

TL;DR: The studies clearly show that example-based search is comparable to ranked lists on simple tasks, but significantly reduces the error rate and search time when complex tradeoffs are involved, showing that such tools are likely to be useful particularly for extending the scope of consumer e-commerce to more complex products.

TL;DR: In this article, a computer-controlled, high-temperature Couette rheometer was used to characterize the constitutive flow behavior of a tin-15 pct lead system from 0.3 to 0.45 fractions solid.

TL;DR: In this paper, a linear equation is proposed to model the kinetics of the agglomeration evolution of semi-solid alloys under shear during transient processes, and material parameters appearing in the evolution equation are determined from shear rate jump experiments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a performance verification technique for cyber-physical systems that consist of multiple control loops implemented on a distributed architecture, and they show how to combine functional analysis techniques with model checking in order to derive a delay-frequency interface that quantifies the interleavings between messages with worst-case delays and those with smaller delays.