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BIRTHDAY
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Web Service Composition via the Customization of Golog Programs with User Preferences
Abstract. We claim that user preferences are a key component of effective Web service composition, and one that has largely been ignored. In this paper we propose a means of speci...
Shirin Sohrabi, Nataliya Prokoshyna, Sheila A. McI...
GLVLSI
2009
IEEE
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15 years 8 months ago
Hardware-accelerated gradient noise for graphics
A synthetic noise function is a key component of most computer graphics rendering systems. This pseudo-random noise function is used to create a wide variety of natural looking te...
Josef B. Spjut, Andrew E. Kensler, Erik Brunvand
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Increasing the expressiveness of virtual agents: autonomous generation of speech and gesture for spatial description tasks
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...
Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Monitoring social expectations in Second Life
Online virtual worlds such as Second Life provide a rich medium for unstructured human interaction in a shared simulated 3D environment. However, many human interactions take place...
Stephen Cranefield, Guannan Li
ICSOC
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Evaluating Contract Compatibility for Service Composition in the SeCO2 Framework
Recently, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model has been increasingly supported, becoming a major part of the new emerging cloud computing paradigms. Although SaaS exists in diff...
Marco Comerio, Hong Linh Truong, Flavio De Paoli, ...