Simulated humans in computer interfaces are increasingly taking on roles that were once reserved for real humans. The presentation of simulated humans is affected by their appeara...
Karl F. MacDorman, Joseph A. Coram, Chin-Chang Ho,...
Abstract--Microfluidics-based biochips enable the precise control of nanoliter volumes of biochemical samples and reagents. They combine electronics with biology, and they integrat...
Nurse rostering is a difficult search problem with many constraints. In the literature, a number of approaches have been investigated including penalty function methods to tackle t...
Ruibin Bai, Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall, Jingp...
Abstract—rSesame is a generic modeling and simulation framework which can explore and evaluate reconfigurable systems at the early design stages. The framework can be used to ex...
Kamana Sigdel, Mark Thompson, Carlo Galuzzi, Andy ...
Portable, reusable test collections are a vital part of research and development in information retrieval. Reusability is difficult to assess, however. The standard approach— si...
Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, Virgiliu Pavlu...