Persistent Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) can be used to assist users in their daily activities. We introduce the Health and Fitness Companion (HFC), which is a conversation...
Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Zhang, Marc Cav...
More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...
Optimizing user experience for streaming video applications on handheld devices is a significant research challenge. In this paper, we propose an integrated power management appr...
Shivajit Mohapatra, Radu Cornea, Nikil D. Dutt, Al...
—One part of the vision of ubiquitous computing is the integration of sensing and actuation nodes into everyday objects, clothes worn on the body, and in large numbers into the e...
Clemens Lombriser, Andreas Bulling, Andreas Breite...
Knowledge gathering and investigative tasks in open environments can be very complex because the problemsolving context is constantly evolving, and the data may be incomplete, unr...