The ubiquitous computing vision is to make knowledge and services easily available in our everyday environments. A wide range of devices, applications and services can be intercon...
The move from the current compartmentalised systems into an interoperable environment is the central challenge facing digital development this decade. In the quest for a semantic ...
ems, using abstractions that actually remove physical constraints from consideration. At the other, embedded systems design goes beyond the traditional expertise of electrical engi...
This paper describes an animated conversational agent called Kare1 which integrates a talking head interface with a linguistically motivated human-machine dialogue system. The age...
Current developments show that tomorrow’s information systems and applications will no longer be based on monolithic architectures that encompass all the functionality. Rather, t...