We have been constructing a visual anthro-pomorphous agent system called Visual Software Agent(VSA). The VSA has a texture-mapped realistic human facial image and moves his/her face with facial expression in real-time. Also, it can recognize the speech dialogue of a user and can respond in synthesized voice sentence with synchronizing his/her mouth movement. This style of multi-modal dialogue s...

In this paper we describe a multi-purpose Spoken Dialogue System platform associated with two distinct applications as an home intelligent environment and remote access to information databases. These applications differ substantially on contents and possible uses but gives us the chance to develop a platform where we were able to represent diverse services to be accessible by a spoken interfac...

The Psyche project at the University of Rochester aims to develop a high-performance operating system to support a wide variety of models for parallel programming on a shared-memory multiprocessor. It is predicated on the assumption that no one model of process state or style of communication will prove appropriate for all applications, but that a shared-memory machine can and should support al...

In this paper we describe SMILES, a Stunning Multi-purpose Integrated LEarning System. A machine learning system is useful for extracting models from data and hence it can be used for many applications such as data analysis, decision support or data mining. SMILES is a machine learning system that integrates many different features from other machine learning techniques and paradigms and, more ...

Service robotics is a new, emerging domain in robotics, characterised by enthusiasm, diverseness, and emerging industry. The paper presents modular and interacting obstacle avoidance, and navigation subsystems. The obstacle avoidance system is older, so there are practical experiences of its application to electric wheelchairs, which are explained. Ongoing work with the navigation unit is revie...

Oil field assimilation needs a complex of facilities and service lines for oil recovery, transportation and refining. It includes wells, collection stations, pipelines, meters, separators, formation pressure maintenance equipment, roads and power lines. Oilfield assimilation depends on the geographical and climatic features of the field, such as the areas under existing buildings, areas taken u...

Using the graphics processing unit (GPU) to accelerate general-purpose computations has become an important technique in scientific research. However, the development complexity is significantly higher than for CPU-based solutions, due to the mainly graphics-oriented concepts and development tools for GPU-programming. As a consequence, general-purpose computations on the GPU are mainly discusse...

Although the actual state-of-the-art on Recommender Systems is good enough to allow recommendations and personalization along many application fields, developing a general purpose multi-algorithm recommender system is a tough task. In this paper we present the main challenges involved on developing such system and a system’s architecture that allows us to face this challenges.

Tuning and controlling particle accelerators is time consuming and expensive. Inherently nonlinear, this control problem is one to which conventional methods have not satisfactorily been applied; the result is constant and expensive monitoring by human operators. In recent years, and with isolated successes, advanced information technologies such as expert systems and neural networks have been ...

Several different CAD systems are in use at CERN today. Most of the 3D design work for the LHC is being done using Euclid from MDTVision. For 2D design work AutoCAD is widely used. Also, various special design tools exist for tasks such as electrical design and schematics. Even though the LHC design will be finished with Euclid, it has been clear since several years that a new 3D CAD system wil...