115 views154 votes15 years 11 months ago ISER 2004»
A virtual fence is created by applying an aversive stimulus to an animal when it approaches a predefined boundary. It is implemented by a small animal-borne computer system with a...
148 views157 votes15 years 11 months ago MABS 2004»
The emerging ”Computational Grid” infrastructure poses many new opportunities for the developing science of large scale multiagent simulation. The ability to migrate agent expe...
92 views129 votes15 years 11 months ago SEMWEB 2004»
A central theme of the semantic web is that programs should be able to easily aggregate data from different sources. Unfortunately, even if two sites provide their data using the ...
178 views139 votes15 years 11 months ago VLDB 2004»
Data cube has been playing an essential role in fast OLAP (online analytical processing) in many multi-dimensional data warehouses. However, there exist data sets in applications ...
This research is focused on the development of a thermal display and understanding the nature of the thermal cues used to identify objects haptically. The objective of the present...
Haptic interface serves as an ideal context and platform for teaching both system dynamics and embedded control. At The University of Michigan, a traditional undergraduate mechani...
170 views156 votes15 years 10 months ago SIGIR 2003»
Question classification is very important for question answering. This paper presents our research work on automatic question classification through machine learning approaches. W...
136 views161 votes15 years 10 months ago VRST 2003»
Virtual environments (VEs) allow users to experience and interact with a rich sensory environment, but most virtual worlds contain only sensory information similar to that which w...
102 views137 votes15 years 10 months ago ATAL 2003»
Making it easier to design interactions between agents and humans is essential for realizing multi-agent simulations of social phenomena such as group dynamics. To realize large-s...
107 views151 votes15 years 10 months ago AUSAI 2003»
We describe novel approaches to multimedia analysis and synthesis problems. We first present the experiential sampling technique which has the ability to focus on the analysis task...