This study examines the acceptance and usability of an animated conversational agent designed to establish longterm relationships with older, mostly minority adult users living in...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Lisa Caruso, Kerri Clough-Gor...
We present a game-based interface for acquiring common sense knowledge. In addition to being interactive and entertaining, our interface guides the knowledge acquisition process t...
Robert Speer, Jayant Krishnamurthy, Catherine Hava...
Materialized views, a rdbms silver bullet, demonstrate its efficacy in many applications, especially as a data warehousing/decison support system tool. The pivot of playing materia...
The Web 2.0 fosters the creation of communities by offering users a wide array of social software tools. While the success of these tools is based on their ability to support diff...
Angelo Di Iorio, Davide Rossi, Fabio Vitali, Stefa...
Abstract—A simple and effective composition of software services into higher-level composite services is still a very challenging task. Especially in enterprise environments, Qua...
Florian Rosenberg, Predrag Celikovic, Anton Michlm...