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PRESENCE
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Pilot Evaluation Study of a Virtual Paracentesis Simulator for Skill Training and Assessment: The Beneficial Effect of Haptic Di
Effective, real-time training of health care professionals in invasive procedures is a challenging task. Furthermore, assessing in practice the acquisition of the dexterity and sk...
Costas S. Tzafestas, Kostas Birbas, Yiannis Koumpo...
JAIR
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
Context-based Word Acquisition for Situated Dialogue in a Virtual World
To tackle the vocabulary problem in conversational systems, previous work has applied unsupervised learning approaches on co-occurring speech and eye gaze during interaction to au...
Shaolin Qu, Joyce Yue Chai
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
16 years 26 days ago
Semantically Enabled Temporal Reasoning in a Virtual Observatory
The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory (VSTO) is a distributed, scalable education and research environment for searching, integrating, and analyzing observational, experimental...
Patrick West, Eric Rozell, Stephan Zednik, Peter F...
HPDC
2008
IEEE
16 years 24 days ago
Combining batch execution and leasing using virtual machines
As cluster computers are used for a wider range of applications, we encounter the need to deliver resources at particular times, to meet particular deadlines, and/or at the same t...
Borja Sotomayor, Kate Keahey, Ian T. Foster
NCA
2007
IEEE
16 years 16 days ago
Towards IQ-Appliances: Quality-awareness in Information Virtualization
Our research addresses two important problems that arise in modern large-scale distributed systems: (1) the necessity to virtualize their data flows by applying actions such as ï...
Radhika Niranjan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan,...