—High-level simulation and design space exploration nowadays are key ingredients for system-level design of modern multimedia embedded systems. The majority of the work in this a...
This paper proposes a novel framework to index and retrieve audio content from broadcast database that contains both speech and music. In this framework, we model the acoustic eve...
Abstract. We aim to create a model of emotional reactive virtual humans. This model will help to define realistic behavior for virtual characters based on emotions and events in t...
This paper presents in detail an efficient and provably correct algorithm for database replication over partitionable networks. Our algorithm avoids the need for end-toend acknow...
In this paper, we suggest that it should be possible to come closer to the Semantic Web goals by enhancing the ontology paradigm and, in particular, by supplementing the ‘tradit...