We present staged allocation, a technique for specifying calling conventions by composing tiny allocators called stages. A specification written using staged allocation has a prec...
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...
The ability to automatically compose web services, and to monitor their execution, is an essential step to substantially decrease time and costs in the development, integration, a...
Marco Pistore, Fabio Barbon, Piergiorgio Bertoli, ...
We present the development and experimentation of a distributed system for pervasive video communication on gigabit networks. We have implemented an event-based control mechanism f...
Yan Grunenberger, Phuong Hoang Nguyen, Gilles Priv...
In this paper, we present a compositional boosting algorithm for detecting and recognizing 17 common image structures in low-middle level vision tasks. These structures, called &q...