Object-based sequential programming has had a major impact on software engineering. However, object-based concurrent programming remains elusive as an effective programming tool. T...
With the advent of collaborative business processes that may include different parties, the interaction means between those processes steadily gains more importance. Despite this i...
We address several challenges for applying statistical dialog managers based on Partially Observable Markov Models to real world problems: to deal with large numbers of concepts, ...
Sebastian Varges, Giuseppe Riccardi, Silvia Quarte...
This paper is structured as follows. Section 2 gives an architectural description of BlueGene/L. Section 3 analyzes the issue of “computational noise” – the effect that the o...
Kei Davis, Adolfy Hoisie, Greg Johnson, Darren J. ...
The importance of faces in human interaction explains the desire for synthetic faces as a communication vehicle in computer graphics. Unfortunately, animating a face is a very com...