This paper reports on an NSF-funded effort now underway to integrate three learning technologies that have emerged and matured over the past decade; each has presented compelling ...
Spoken multimodal dialogue systems in which users address faceonly or embodied interface agents have been gaining ground in research for some time. Although most systems are still...
Service-based approaches are widely used to integrate heterogenous systems. Web services allow for the definition of highly dynamic systems where components (services) can be dis...
Temporal reasoning has always been a major test case for knowledge representation formalisms. In this paper, we develop an inductive variant of the situation calculus using the Lo...
Compared with previous video coding standards, H.264/AVC employs a division-free quantization scheme. The relation between quantization parameter and quantization step changes from...