In this paper, XfaceEd, our open source, platform independent tool for authoring 3D embodied conversational agents (ECAs) is presented. Following MPEG-4 Facial Animation (FA) stan...
Many optimization techniques have been adopted for efficient job scheduling in grid computing, such as: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and stochastic methods. Such techni...
Renato Porfirio Ishii, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello,...
The adventof multipoint(multicast-based) applications and the growth and complexity of the Internet has complicated network protocol design and evaluation. In this paper, we prese...
Ahmed Helmy, Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Deborah Estrin, ...
— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...
— Many decision systems rely on a precisely known Markov Chain model to guarantee optimal performance, and this paper considers the online estimation of unknown, nonstationary Ma...