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CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic Memory for Avatars in Cyberspace
Avatars that show intelligent behavior should have an access to general knowledge about the world, knowledge that humans store in their semantic memories. The simplest knowledge r...
Julian Szymanski, Tomasz Sarnatowicz, Wlodzislaw D...
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Place Metaphors in Educational Cyberworlds: a Virtual Campus Case Study
In the recent years, the usage of 3D cyberworlds for educational purposes has increased. The metaphors behind the design of virtual places are quite diverse, from replication of r...
Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland, Alexei Sourin,...
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Using a Floating Origin to Improve Fidelity and Performance of Large, Distributed Virtual Worlds
Large Virtual Worlds (VWs) are increasingly common in the computer graphics areas of simulation, games, geospatial or scientific visualisation. In such VWs, simulated motion of th...
Chris Thorne
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
An ARIS-based Transformation Approach to Semantic Web Service Development
This paper explores the use of ARIS for Semantic Web Service development. It proposes an ARIS-based transformation methodology for the automatic specification and development of S...
Cheng Leong Ang, Yuan Gu, Olga Sourina, Robert Khe...
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Designing Interfaces for art applications
Imagination and creativity have always marked the path in the world of aesthetics; artists, designers and other creative individuals have found in the realm of computers a new can...
Marissa Díaz Pier, Isaac Rudomín Gol...
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Applying Transformation-Based Error-Driven Learning to Structured Natural Language Queries
XML information retrieval (XML-IR) systems aim to provide users with highly exhaustive and highly specific results. To interact with XML-IR systems, users must express both their ...
Alan Woodley, Shlomo Geva
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
ComRank: Metasearch and Automatic Ranking of XML Retrieval System
Different information retrieval (IR) systems often return very diverse results lists for the same query. This is problematic for users since no one IR system works best for every ...
Alan Woodley, Shlomo Geva
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Strategy for Displaying the Recognition Result in Interactive Vision
This paper describes a choice strategy to ease user’s burdens for an interactive object recognition system when the system obtains multiple object candidates as a recognition re...
Yasushi Makihara, Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Shirai, Nobu...
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Agent Models for Dynamic 3D Virtual Worlds
Agents are systems capable of perceiving their environment through sensors, reasoning about their sensory input using some characteristic reasoning process and acting in their env...
Mary Lou Maher, Kathryn Elizabeth Merrick
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Capability-Based Transparent Cryptographic File System
Data on the file system in mobile internetworked working environments are exposed data to a number of threats ranging from physical theft of storage devices to industrial espiona...
Frank Graf, Stephen D. Wolthusen