The hospitality industry One year since September 11, 2001 An introduction to this special-focus issue

The Many Faces of Agents: Introduction to this Special Issue

Meanwhile, the object-oriented community was defining and refining the notion of objects as units of software design that encapsulate state. They have some control over their state in the sense that the state can only be accessed or modified using the methods that the object provides. Objects could be distributed and invoked remotely through remote procedure calls or message passing. Networking...

Varieties of Question Generation: Introduction to this Special Issue

Questions are a topic that is ideally placed at the intersection of research on dialogue and discourse: in most dialogue, questions are the driving force, setting its direction, whereas answers to questions require discourse processing (e.g., contextual resolution in the case of short answers) or can be viewed as a piece of discourse themselves (e.g., an explanation in response to a whyquestion...

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Introduction to This Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction

Human–computer interaction (HCI), as a field, has made great strides toward understanding and improving our interactions with computer-based technologies. From the early explorations of direct interaction with computers, we have reached the point where usability, usefulness, and an appreciation of technology’s social impact, including its risks, are widely accepted goals in computing. HCI resea...

Tractor ROPS and Stability Research: Introduction to this Special Issue.

Agricultural production has clearly benefited from the development of the tractor. The tractor provides a traction device and mobile power source. However, operating large equipment with high clearance on uneven ground leads to stability and overturn issues. Around the world, tractor overturns are still a leading cause of agricultural production fatalities. This special issue of the Journal of ...