From the Chair: Who, Me?

The Chatbot Who Loved Me

The paper describes the BotCom complex embedded conversational agent system, which is accessible over the Internet and capable of high quality natural language processing as well as sophisticated manipulation of emotions. It relies on an extension of Plutchik’s emotional model. Experimental cases leading to useful constraints for optimization are discussed. BotCom, a prototype for a robust comm...

From the Bedside Chair.

From the BCVS Chair.

A Proud History In July 2019, the American Heart Association (AHA) Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science (BCVS) will celebrate its 20th anniversary. For this first News and Views: From the BCVS Chair for Circulation Research, I thought it would be most appropriate to provide a brief history and mission statement of the AHA BCVS Council. In 1924, 6 leading cardiologists across the nation—Drs L...

Welcome from the Chair

Gravitational wave differences for mass-ratio q=2 binary black hole simulations. Courtesy M. Pürrer.

Message from the Program Chair

n behalf of the Euromicro Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 17th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2005), held in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. During the past years the conference has established itself as the prime European forum for realtime system researchers. Impressively, this year’s edition continues a steady gr...