Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Architectural Middleware that Supports Building High-performance,
  Scalable, Ubiquitous, Intelligent Personal Assistants   Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) are software agents that can perform
tasks on behalf of individuals and assist them on many of their daily
activities. IPAs capabilities are expanding rapidly due to the recent advances
on areas such as natural language processing, machine learning, artificial
cognition, and ubiquitous computing, which equip the agents with competences to
understand what users say, collect information from everyday ubiquitous devices
(e.g., smartphones, wearables, tablets, laptops, cars, household appliances,
etc.), learn user preferences, deliver data-driven search results, and make
decisions based on user's context. Apart from the inherent complexity of
building such IPAs, developers and researchers have to address many critical
architectural challenges (e.g., low-latency, scalability, concurrency,
ubiquity, code mobility, interoperability, support to cognitive services and
reasoning, to name a few.), thereby diverting them from their main goal:
building IPAs. Thus, our contribution in this paper is twofold: 1) we propose
an architecture for a platform-agnostic, high-performance, ubiquitous, and
distributed middleware that alleviates the burdensome task of dealing with
low-level implementation details when building IPAs by adding multiple
abstraction layers that hide the underlying complexity; and 2) we present an
implementation of the middleware that concretizes the aforementioned
architecture and allows the development of high-level capabilities while
scaling the system up to hundreds of thousands of IPAs with no extra effort. We
demonstrate the powerfulness of our middleware by analyzing software metrics
for complexity, effort, performance, cohesion and coupling when developing a
conversational IPA.

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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph