Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
In the software industry, designers are forever trying to “improve” their products by adding ever more features to them, producing bloated software systems that are capable of...
The rapid growth of social networking sites and web communities have motivated web sites to expose their APIs to external developers who create mashups by assembling existing func...
Interfaces based on recognition technologies are used extensively in both the commercial and research worlds. But recognizers are still error-prone, and this results in human perf...
Jennifer Mankoff, Scott E. Hudson, Gregory D. Abow...
Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are computer generated life-like characters that interact with human users in face-to-face conversations. To achieve natural multi-modal conve...
Hung-Hsuan Huang, Aleksandra Cerekovic, Kateryna T...