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ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 3 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
AIMSA
2008
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Mapping Properties of Heterogeneous Ontologies
Abstract. State of the art formalisms for distributed ontology integration provide ways to express semantic relations between concepts belonging to different ontologies. However, t...
Chiara Ghidini, Luciano Serafini
DEXA
2009
Springer
151views Database» more  DEXA 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Automatic Extraction of Ontologies Wrapping Relational Data Sources
Describing relational data sources (i.e. databases) by means of ontologies constitutes the foundation of most of the semantic based approaches to data access and integration. In sp...
Lina Lubyte, Sergio Tessaris
FM
1991
Springer
164views Formal Methods» more  FM 1991»
14 years 8 days ago
Formalizing Design Spaces: Implicit Invocation Mechanisms
An important goal of software engineering is to exploit commonalities in system design in order to reduce the complexity of building new systems, support largescale reuse, and pro...
David Garlan, David Notkin
APN
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Markov Decision Petri Net and Markov Decision Well-Formed Net Formalisms
In this work, we propose two high-level formalisms, Markov Decision Petri Nets (MDPNs) and Markov Decision Well-formed Nets (MDWNs), useful for the modeling and analysis of distrib...
Marco Beccuti, Giuliana Franceschinis, Serge Hadda...