Abstract. We describe an architecture for building speech-enabled conversational agents, deployed as self-contained Web services, with ability to provide inference processing on ve...
A conversation protocol is a top-down specification framework which specifies desired global behaviors of a web service composition. In our earlier work [6] we studied the problem...
Displaying broadcast video on a MultiMedia PC, implies the use of video format conversion (VFC) techniques, as computer displays and television receivers use quite distinct scanni...
In using web search engines, there are cases where the name of the target object is unavailable, and the user can only give the visual descriptions of the object. The existing keyw...
—In this paper, we argue that weak cache consistency mechanisms supported by existing Web proxy caches must be augmented by strong consistency mechanisms to support the growing d...