Animated pedagogical agents offer promise as a means of making computer-aided learning more engaging and effective. To achieve this, an agent must be able to interact with the lea...
W. Lewis Johnson, Erin Shaw, Andrew Marshall, Cath...
Huge amount of manual efforts are required to annotate large image/video archives with text annotations. Several recent works attempted to automate this task by employing supervis...
Distributed heterogeneous search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers d...
Abstract With the ongoing shift from off-line to on-line business processes, the Web has become an important business platform, and for most companies it is crucial to have an on-...
Abstract— In this work, we demonstrate the power of providing a common set of operating system services to Grid Architectures, including high-performance I/O, communication, reso...