This paper proposes an alternative paradigm for building affective competencies in embodied conversational agents (ECAs). The key feature of this approach -- and the reason for ref...
A wide-area sensor system is a complex, dynamic, resource-rich cloud of Internet-connected sensing devices. In this paper, we propose X-Tree Programming, a novel database-centric ...
— Typical embedded hardware/software systems are implemented using a combination of C and an HDL such as Verilog. While each is well-behaved in isolation, combining the two gives...
— We present the Adaptive Group Notification (AGNO) scheme for efficiently contacting large peer populations in unstructured Peer-to-Peer networks. AGNO defines a novel implic...
Abstract. In domains such as music and visual art, where the quality of an individual often depends on subjective or hard to express concepts, the automating fitness assignment bec...
Bill Z. Manaris, Penousal Machado, Clayton McCaule...