Intelligent Agents For Mobile And Virtual Media

Author : Rae Earnshaw,John Vince
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447106777

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Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Virtual Media by Rae Earnshaw,John Vince Pdf

As the Internet and World Wide Web continue to influence corporate and private activities, systems are needed that mimic human-to-human interface, to simplify the human-to-computer interface. Intelligent Agents are likely to play a significant role in the design of such interfaces, and this book explores how they could influence media-based systems. Throughout, the text maps out the considerable advances that have already been made, paving the way toward a future where computers will be truly described as an intelligent aid to our personal and business lives.

Author : Angelica de Antonio,Ruth Aylett,Daniel Ballin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540425700

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Intelligent Virtual Agents by Angelica de Antonio,Ruth Aylett,Daniel Ballin Pdf

Predicting the future is a risky game, and can often leave egg on one’s face. However when the organizers of the Intelligent Virtual Environments workshop at the European Conference on AI predicted that the field of Intelligent Virtual Agents would grow and mature rapidly, they were not wrong. From this small workshop spawned the successful one on Intelligent Virtual Agents, held in Manchester in 1999. This volume comprises the proceedings of the much larger third workshop held in Madrid, September 10 11, 2001, which successfully achieved the aim of taking a more international focus, bringing together researchers from all over the world. We received 35 submissions from 18 different countries in America, Asia, and Africa. The 16 papers presented at the conference and published here show the high quality of the work that is currently being done in this field. In addition, five contributions were selected as short papers, which were presented as posters at the workshop. This proceedings volume also includes the two prestigious papers presented at the workshop by our keynote speakers: Daniel Thalmann, Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne and Director of the Computer Graphics Lab., who talked about The Foundations to Build a Virtual Human Society. Jeff Rickel, Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, who debated about Intelligent Virtual Agents for Education and Training: Opportunities and Challenges.

Author : Themis Panayiotopoulos,Jonathan Gratch,Ruth Aylett,Daniel Ballin,Patrick Olivier,Thomas Rist
Publisher : Springer
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540287391

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Intelligent Virtual Agents by Themis Panayiotopoulos,Jonathan Gratch,Ruth Aylett,Daniel Ballin,Patrick Olivier,Thomas Rist Pdf

The origin of the Intelligent Virtual Agents conference dates from a successful workshop on Intelligent Virtual Environments held in Brighton at the 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'98). This workshop was followed by a second one held in Salford in Manchester in 1999. Subsequent events took place in Madrid, Spain in 2001 and Irsee, Germany in 2003 and attracted participants from both sides of the Atlantic as well as Asia. th This volume contains the proceedings of the 5 International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2005, held on Kos Island, Greece, September 12–14, 2005, which highlighted once again the importance and vigor of the research field. A half-day workshop under the title “Socially Competent IVA’s: We are not alone in this (virtual) world!” also took place as part of this event. IVA 2005 received 69 submissions from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. The papers published here are the 26 full papers and 14 short papers presented at the conference, as well as one-page descriptions of the 15 posters and the descriptions of the featured invited talks by Prof. Justine Cassell, of Northwestern University and Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn, of the University of Hertfordshire. We would like to thank a number of people that have contributed to the success of this conference. First of all, we thank the authors for their high-quality work and their willingness to share their ideas.

Author : John Turnbull,Simon G. E. Garrett
Publisher : IET
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780852964286

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Broadband Applications and the Digital Home by John Turnbull,Simon G. E. Garrett Pdf

This fascinating book explores the technological challenges and applications of providing fast, 'always-on' internet connections to the home. Current delivery mechanisms of broadband into and around the home are explored in depth.

Author : Ben Coppin
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0763732303

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Artificial Intelligence Illuminated by Ben Coppin Pdf

Artificial Intelligence Illuminated presents an overview of the background and history of artificial intelligence, emphasizing its importance in today's society and potential for the future. The book covers a range of AI techniques, algorithms, and methodologies, including game playing, intelligent agents, machine learning, genetic algorithms, and Artificial Life. Material is presented in a lively and accessible manner and the author focuses on explaining how AI techniques relate to and are derived from natural systems, such as the human brain and evolution, and explaining how the artificial equivalents are used in the real world. Each chapter includes student exercises and review questions, and a detailed glossary at the end of the book defines important terms and concepts highlighted throughout the text.

Author : Julie A. Jacko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540731108

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Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Intelligent Multimodal Interaction Environments by Julie A. Jacko Pdf

Here is the third of a four-volume set that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007, held in Beijing, China, in July 2007, jointly with eight other thematically similar conferences. It covers multimodality and conversational dialogue; adaptive, intelligent and emotional user interfaces; gesture and eye gaze recognition; and interactive TV and media.

Author : Pandian Vasant,Ivan Zelinka,Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030009793

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Intelligent Computing & Optimization by Pandian Vasant,Ivan Zelinka,Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber Pdf

This book includes innovative research work presented at ICO’2018, the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization, held in Pattaya, Thailand on October 4–5, 2018. The conference presented topics ranging from power quality, reliability, security assurance, cloud computing, smart cities, renewable energy, agro-engineering, smart vehicles, deep learning, block chain, power systems, AI, machine learning, manufacturing systems, and big-data analytics. This volume focuses on subjects related to innovative computing, uncertainty management and optimization approaches to real-world problems in big-data, smart cities, sustainability, meta-heuristics, cyber-security, IoTs, economics and finance, renewable energy, energy and electricity systems, and block chain. Presenting cutting-edge methodologies with real-world application problems and their solutions, the book is useful for researchers, managers, executives, students, academicians, practicing scientists, and decision makers from all around the globe. It offers the academic and the applied communities a compendium and a research resource with significant insights and inspiration for innovative scientific education, investigation and collaboration, to overcome “hard problems” among the emerging challenges today and in the future.

Author : Lola Cañamero,Ruth Aylett
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027289834

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Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction by Lola Cañamero,Ruth Aylett Pdf

Animated interactive characters and robots that are able to function in human social environments are being developed by a large number of research groups worldwide. Emotional expression, as a key element of human social interaction and communication, is often added in an attempt to make them appear more natural to us. How can such artefacts be given emotional displays that are believable and acceptable to humans? This is the central question of Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction. The ability to express and recognize emotions is a fundamental aspect of social interaction. Not only is it a central research question, it has been explored in animated films, dance, and other expressive arts for a much longer period. This book is unique in presenting a multi-disciplinary approach to animation in its broadest sense: from internal mechanisms to external displays, not only from a graphical perspective, but more generally examining how to give characters an “anima”, so that they appear as life-like entities and social partners to humans. (Series B)

Author : Vincent G. Duffy
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420063523

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Handbook of Digital Human Modeling by Vincent G. Duffy Pdf

The rapid introduction of sophisticated computers, services, telecommunications systems, and manufacturing systems has caused a major shift in the way people use and work with technology. It is not surprising that computer-aided modeling has emerged as a promising method for ensuring products meet the requirements of the consumer. The Handbook of Digital Human Modeling provides comprehensive coverage of the theory, tools, and methods to effectively achieve this objective. The 56 chapters in this book, written by 113 contributing authorities from Canada, China, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, and the US, provide a wealth of international knowledge and guidelines. They cover applications in advanced manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, data visualization and simulation, defense and military systems, design for impaired mobility, healthcare and medicine, information systems, and product design. The text elucidates tools to help evaluate product and work design while reducing the need for physical prototyping. Additional software and demonstration materials on the CRC Press web site include a never-before-released 220-page step-by-step UGS-Siemens JackTM help manual developed at Purdue University. The current gap between capability to correctly predict outcomes and set expectation for new and existing products and processes affects human-system performance, market acceptance, product safety, and satisfaction at work. The handbook provides the fundamental concepts and tools for digital human modeling and simulation with a focus on its foundations in human factors and ergonomics. The tools identified and made available in this handbook help reduce the need for physical prototyping. They enable engineers to quantify acceptability and risk in design in terms of the human factors and ergonomics.

Author : Nilanjan Dey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789819934287

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Applied Genetic Algorithm and Its Variants by Nilanjan Dey Pdf

This book provides fundamental concepts related to various types of genetic algorithms and practical applications in various domains such as medical imaging, manufacturing, and engineering design. The book discusses genetic algorithms which are used to solve a variety of optimization problems. The genetic algorithms are demonstrated to offer reliable search in complex spaces. The book presents high-quality research work by academics and researchers which is useful for young researchers and students.

Author : Peter Sapaty
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780471656364

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Ruling Distributed Dynamic Worlds by Peter Sapaty Pdf

A sequel to Mobile Processing in Distributed and Open Environments,this title introduces an extended, universal WAVE-WP model fordistributed processing and control in dynamic and open worlds ofany natures. The new control theory and technology introduced inthe book can be widely used for the design and implementation ofmany distributed control systems, such as intelligent networkmanagement for the Internet, mobile cooperative robots, RapidReaction forces, future Combat Systems, robotics and AI, NMD, spaceresearch on other planets, and other applications. This title: * Demonstrates a much simpler and more efficient applicationprogramming * Cultivates a new kind of thinking about how large dynamic systemsshould be designed, organized, tasked, simulated, andcontrolled * Introduces an extended, universal WAVE-WP model for distributedprocessing * Compares the universal WAVE-WP model to other existing systemsused in intelligent networking

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computer simulation
ISBN : UOM:39015058751523

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Intelligent Virtual Agents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hartmut Wittig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783322868510

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Intelligent Media Agents by Hartmut Wittig Pdf

Intelligent agents are rescuer in the information glut. They help users to find information which better corresponds to their interests and needs. This book describes the architecture and basic modules of an intelligent media agent. A personal television guide is described as an example of intelligent help, addressing the problem of managing TV channels by using an intelligent agent.

Author : Thomas Rist,Ruth Aylett,Daniel Ballin,Jeff Rickel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540200031

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Intelligent Virtual Agents by Thomas Rist,Ruth Aylett,Daniel Ballin,Jeff Rickel Pdf

This volume, containing the proceedings of IVA 2003, held at Kloster Irsee, in Germany, September 15–17, 2003, is testimony to the growing importance of IntelligentVirtualAgents(IVAs) asaresearch?eld.Wereceived67submissions, nearly twice as many as for IVA 2001, not only from European countries, but from China, Japan, and Korea, and both North and South America. As IVA research develops, a growing number of application areas and pl- forms are also being researched. Interface agents are used as part of larger - plications, often on the Web. Education applications draw on virtual actors and virtual drama, while the advent of 3D mobile computing and the convergence of telephones and PDAs produce geographically-aware guides and mobile - tertainment applications. A theme that will be apparent in a number of the papers in this volume is the impact of embodiment on IVA research – a char- teristic di?erentiating it to some extent from the larger ?eld of software agents.

Author : Antonio S. Camara,Jonathan Raper
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0748408193

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Spatial Multimedia and Virtual Reality by Antonio S. Camara,Jonathan Raper Pdf

The intersection of two disciplines and technologies which have become mature academic research topics in the 1990s was destined to be a dynamic area for collaboration and publication. However, until now no significant book-length treatment of the meeting of GIS and Virtual Reality has been available. This volume puts that situation to rights by bringing these together to cement some common understanding and principles in a potentially highly promising area for technological collaboration and cross-fertilisation. The result is a volume which ranges in subject matter from studies of a Virtual GIS Room to Spatial Agents, and from an Environmental Multimedia System to Computer-Assisted 3D Geographic Education. All the contributors are well-known international scientists, principally from the computational side of GIS. It will be a valuable resource for any GIS researcher or professional looking to understand the leading edge of this fertile field.