In this Interactive Storytelling (IS) work, we provide a framework for automating several aspects of staging the activities of a population of narrative agents and their interactions. Narrative agents can have differing levels of narrative relevance within the situated narrative actions which are visualised within a 3D real-time virtual world. The solution we propose here offers a framework for...

The INDES project-team of Inria has been developing HOP, a multi-tier language for Web programming. As part of the RAPP FP7 European project, the team has set out to use HOP as the lingua franca of the robotics applications developed within that project. Part of the challenge lies in the integration of existing robotics code, written using ROS or custom libraries, with HOP-based application. Th...

The task of producing a VLSI architecture that will solve a given problem contains many design decisions. The eeects of these decisions on the nal design are often diicult to quantify. We will compare three diierent implementations of a systolic architecture for solving the knapsack problem using the dynamic programming method. The design decisions involved and the \engineering" of the algorith...

A school became safer after security measures were removed. Children can learn better in playful, rather than didactic, settings. At-risk students earned higher grades after writing about a personal value. A novel construct - mise en place--explains how small changes in context, such as these, can lead to large changes in behaviors by highlighting how the psychology of preparing to act within a...

We present an unsupervised hard EM approach to automatically mapping instructional recipes to action graphs, which define what actions should be performed on which objects and in what order. Recovering such structures can be challenging, due to unique properties of procedural language where, for example, verbal arguments are commonly elided when they can be inferred from context and disambiguat...

Résumé. Ces dernières années, les progrès en informatique et en imagerie numérique ont fait émerger une nouvelle discipline, la chirurgie assistée par ordinateur. Les systèmes de chirurgie assistée par ordinateur contribuent à l’amélioration du déroulement des procédures chirurgicales. Un des objectif à long terme de nos travaux est de proposer des solutions d’amélioration de ces systèmes, basé...

Geographic information systems have a primary role to play for sustainable urban development, as tools for collecting and analyzing environmental properties of buildings and urban spaces, either as a support for communication and public participation in urban planning. To this end, GIS should take into account the third dimension and they should be able to interoperate with existing simulation ...

depuis les années 1990, une nouvelle visée critique est venue enrichir la liste déjà riche des perspectives de recherches appliquées à la littérature. aux investigations de type historique, textuelle, sociologique, etc. est venue s’ajouter une tendance critique aux contours encore indéfinis, mais dont la volonté première est de valoriser le rapport parfois apparent, souvent implicite, entre la ...