: A speech-driven embodied interactive actor called InterActor with both functions of speaker and listener is developed for activating human interaction and communication by genera...
The adoption of digital television (DTV) could be particularly attractive for older people if appropriately designed. Despite this, when new services and applicat...
OpenMP is an architecture-independent language for programming in the shared memory model. OpenMP is designed to be simple and in terms of programming abstractions. Unfortunately,...
Self-managing solutions have recently attracted a lot of interest from the database community. The need for self-* properties is more evident in distributed applications comprising...
The interconnect mechanisms (shared bus or crossbar) used in current chip-multiprocessors (CMPs) are expected to become a bottleneck that prevents these architectures from scaling...