Mana-ā-kī(tanga) and Tourism in Aotearoa

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Although dry farming is important in Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Khorasan, as well as some other districts, a large proportion of Iran’s agriculture has always depended upon irrigation. Approximately half the annual grain crop, and an overwhelming proportion of other crops, are irrigated. With the exception of the Caspian littoral almost the whole of Iran is classified as semi-arid or arid. As i...

DigitalNZ ā-tihi o Aotearoa: Connecting the Digital Content of New Zealand: Advice, Open Standards and Interoperability

MANA for the Ageing

We present a family of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) using Talking Head technology, along with a program of associated research and user trials. Whilst antecedents of our current ECAs include “chatbots” desgined to pass the Turing Test (TT) or win a Loebner Prize (LP), our current agents are task-oriented Teaching Agents and Social Companions. The current focus for our research includes...

ISO MANA Certificates in Practice

The international standard ISO 9798-6 specifies MANA protocols for data authentication and an application of the MANA I protocol to public key authentication and key exchange. The resulting protocol is called the MANA certificate protocol an can be viewed as a passkey based key agreement protocol. In this paper we present an application of MANA certificate protocol to a wireless security associ...

MANA: Identifying and Mining Unstructured Business Processes

The process mining field supports the discovery of process models using audit trails logged by information systems. Several mining techniques are able to deal with unstructured processes, mainly through cluster analysis. However, they assume the previous extraction of an event log containing related instances. This task is not trivial when the source system doesn’t provide a reliable separation...