In this paper, we describe the development of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) implementing the concept of a companion, i.e. an agent supporting the persistent representatio...
Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Z...
This paper introduces an approach to develop componentbased adaptive distributed applications. Our approach separates the communication and the functional aspects of a distributed...
An Phung-Khac, Antoine Beugnard, Jean-Marie Gillio...
This paper describes an advanced system for multilingual text classification adaptable to different user needs. The system has been initially developed as an applied research proje...
Fabio Ciravegna, Alberto Lavelli, Nadia Mana, Joha...
Energy consumption of the Internet is already substantial and it is likely to increase as operators deploy faster equipment to handle popular bandwidthintensive services, such as ...
Mobile users of computation and communication services have been rapidly adopting battery-powered mobile handhelds, such as PocketPCs and SmartPhones, for their work. However, the...