Management in pervasive systems cannot rely on human intervention or centralised decision-making functions. It must be devolved, based on local decision-making and feedback contro...
Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho, Emil C. Lupu, Naranker...
Programming in an open environment remains challenging because it requires combining modularity, security, concurrency, distribution, and dynamicity. In this paper, we propose an ...
Michael Lienhardt, Alan Schmitt, Jean-Bernard Stef...
Embodied conversational agents should be able to provide feedback on what a human interlocutor is saying. We are compiling a list of facial feedback expressions that signal attenti...
Dirk Heylen, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Marion Tellier, ...
With the increased realisation of the benefits of studying environmental data, sensor networks are rapidly scaling in size, heterogeneity of data, and applications. In this paper...
An efficient speech synthesis method that uses subspace constraint in prosody is proposed. Conventional unit selection methods concatenate speech segments stored in database, tha...