: A natural interface is one of three key technologies of Ambient Intelligence (AmI); one of its main objectives is to minimize the user’s interactive effort, which is the diffic...
Computer aided interactive drama has been widely applied for entertainment and pedagogy. Most existing approaches for authoring interactive drama use either story-centric or chara...
Abstract—The evolution towards cross-organizational collaboration and interaction patterns has led to the emergence of scalable, Web services-based composition infrastructures. T...
Batching jobs in a manufacturing system is a very common policy in most industries. Main reasons for batching are avoidance of setups and/or facilitation of material handling. Bat...
This paper will look at the human predisposition to oral tradition and its effectiveness as a learning tool to convey mission-critical information. After exploring the effectivenes...