In this paper we present an interactive poker game in which one human user plays against two animated agents using RFID-tagged poker cards. The game is used as a showcase to illust...
Services for mobile and pervasive computing should extensively exploit contextual information both to adapt to user needs and to enable autonomic behavior. This raises the problem...
Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
Biomedical researchers rely on keyword-based search engines to retrieve superficially relevant documents, from which they must filter out irrelevant information manually. Hence, t...
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Hong-Jie Dai, Hsi-Chuan Hu...
In the recent years several research efforts have focused on the concept of time granularity and its applications. A first stream of research investigated the mathematical model...
Claudio Bettini, Sergio Mascetti, Xiaoyang Sean Wa...
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...