Research in Interactive Narrative has developed new approaches to the behaviour of virtual actors, but has dedicated little attention to the physical behaviour of the environment ...
Distance metric learning has been widely investigated in machine learning and information retrieval. In this paper, we study a particular content-based image retrieval application ...
Embedded computing architectures can be designed to meet a variety of application specific requirements. However, optimized hardware can require compiler support to realize the po...
In the near future, Ambient Intelligence (AmI) will become part of everyday life. Combining feature-rich multimedia with AmI (dubbed Ambient Multimedia for short) has the potentia...
As a foundation for the design of groupware, we need a new science of group interaction, a systematic description of the processes at the group level of description that may contr...