Though overriding as a single and default mode of inheritance is adequate for most knowledge bases, a large class of applications naturally requires several inheritance modes and ...
In the last decade, there has been an explosion of online commercial activity enabled by the World Wide Web. An electronic marketplace (e-market) provides an online method to perf...
Adriano M. Pereira, Arlei Silva, Wagner Meira Jr.,...
Curtin University’s Talking Heads (TH) combine an MPEG-4 compliant Facial Animation Engine (FAE), an Text To Emotional Speech Synthesiser (TTES), a multi-modal Dialogue Manager (...
He Xiao, Donald Reid, Andrew Marriott, E. K. Gulla...
Chords are a declarative synchronisation construct based on the Join-Calculus, available in the programming language C. To our knowledge, chords have no formal model in an object-...
Sophia Drossopoulou, Alexis Petrounias, Alex Buckl...
We are reaching a crisis with design of user interfaces for consumer electronics. Flashing 12:00 time indicators, push-andhold buttons, and interminable modes and menus are all sy...