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ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Increasing the expressiveness of virtual agents: autonomous generation of speech and gesture for spatial description tasks
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...
Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp
COMSWARE
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
OASiS: A Programming Framework for Service-Oriented Sensor Networks
Abstract— Wireless sensor networks consist of small, inexpensive devices which interact with the environment, communicate with each other, and perform distributed computations in...
Manish Kushwaha, Isaac Amundson, Xenofon D. Koutso...
IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Performance Portable Optimizations for Loops Containing Communication Operations
Effective use of communication networks is critical to the performance and scalability of parallel applications. Partitioned Global Address Space languages like UPC bring the pro...
Costin Iancu, Wei Chen, Katherine A. Yelick
GECCO
2007
Springer
180views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Genetic optimization for yacht design
This paper introduces a procedure for using genetic multiobjective optimization in yacht design. The problem described consists on the optimization of a bulb shape to improve the ...
Paolo Geremia, Mauro Poian, Silvia Poles
ARCS
2005
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Adaptive Object Acquisition
We propose an active vision system for object acquisition. The core of our approach is a reinforcement learning module which learns a strategy to scan an object. The agent moves a...
Gabriele Peters, Claus-Peter Alberts, Markus Bries...