egotiations are believed to be an advantageous coordination mechanism for electronic markets that transcend the selling of commodities as well as for the coordination of complex interactions among organisations. However, most e-Commerce negotiation systems to date can only support price negotiations (dynamic pricing). This may be one of the reasons why current electronic markets struggle for ac...

Software tools that analyze and generate code from ORM conceptual schemas are highly susceptible to feature interaction bugs. When testing such tools, test suites are needed that cover many combinations of features, including combinations that rarely occur in practice. Manually creating such a test suite is extremely labor-intensive, and the tester may fail to cover feasible feature combination...

In this article I summarize some aspects of the current status of the field of high energy physics and discuss how the next generation of high energy colliders will aid in furthering our basic understanding of elementary particles and interactions among them, by shedding light on the mechanism for the spontaneous breakdown of the Electroweak Symmetry.

Human teaching strategies are usually inferred from transcripts of face-to-face conversations or computer-mediated dialogs between learner and tutor. However, during natural interactions there are no constraints on the human tutor’s behavior and thus tutorial strategies are difficult to analyze and reproduce in a computational model. To overcome this problem, we have realized a Wizard of Oz int...

This paper presents a method for automatically testing interactive multimodal systems. The method is based on the Lutess testing environment, originally dedicated to synchronous software specified using the Lustre language. The behaviour of synchronous systems, consisting of cycles starting by reading an external input and ending by issuing an output, is to a certain extent similar to the one o...

In this talk I briefly explain the concept of the structure function of a photon (the best known boson). Then I review some of the current experimental evidence which confirms the existence of ‘strong’ interactions of photon suggested by this idea. I end by pointing out how the photon ‘structure’ has important implications for the interactions of high energy photons and hence for the design of ...

In this short paper we will present our latest research on a new framework being developed for aiding novice designers of highly interactive, cooperative, multimodal systems to make expert decisions in choice of interaction modalities depending on the type of activity and its cooperative nature. Our research is conducted within the field of maritime surveillance at ATOL Laboratory and it is foc...

This paper describes experiments carried out in order to determine syntactic and lexical aggregation preferences by English and Spanish users. The final goal of this work is the implementation of such strategies in the NLG module of a multimodal dialogue system in the in–home domain.

Multimodality for interaction tends to be considered as use of di erent physical communication channels for face-to-face interaction. But our usual communication is indeed more exible, e.g., communication to others at a distance, communication to someone who can reply, and communication with a group of people together. We categorize intimate, loose, and cooperative interaction as extended multi...

AT THE INTELLIGENT ROBOTICS Laboratory of Vanderbilt University’s Center for Intelligent Systems, over the past several years we have been developing a humanoid system called Intelligent Soft-Arm Control. We originally developed ISAC as a robotic aid system for the physically disabled (see Figure 1).1 It has since evolved into a test bed for human–humanoid interaction research.2,3 While working...