Web processes are next generation workflows on the web, created using Web services. In this paper we demonstrate the METEOR-S Configuration and Execution Environment (MCEE) system. It will illustrate the capabilities of the system to a) Discover partners b) Optimize partner selection using constraint analysis, c) Perform interaction protocol and data mediation. A graphical execution monitor to ...

Conversations are a new programming abstraction created for capturing knowledge about the interactions among agents. In this paper we review a conversational coordination language we have designed and used in the past few years, to characterize its main assumptions, strengths and limitations. Based on this analysis we discuss a number of major new features and extensions for our next generation...

Natural language generation is usually divided into separate text planning and linguistic components. This division, though, assumes that the two components can operate independently, which is not always true. The IGEN generator eliminates the need for this assumption; it handles interactions between the components without sacri~cing the advantages of modularity. IGEN accomplishes this by means...

We introduce an approach to multimodal generation of verbal and nonverbal contributions for virtual characters in a multiparty dialogue scenario. This approach addresses issues of turn-taking, is able to synchronize the different modalities in real-time, and supports fixed utterances as well as utterances that are assembled by a full-fledged treebased text generation algorithm. The system is im...

We investigate the scope of all relevant production modes of charged Higgs bosons in the MSSM, with mass larger than the one of the top quark, at future Linear Colliders operating in γγ mode at the TeV energy scale. Final states with one or two H bosons are considered, as produced by both treeand loop-level interactions.

Minority languages and code-switching Code-switching in bilingual communities has been extensively discussed (e.g. Clyne 2003; Myers-Scotton 1997, 2002; Poplack 2004). Here, code-switching is examined in Irish, an endangered language. Crystal (2000) noted that a significant increase in codeswitching is one of the signs that a minority language is coming under pressure from a majority language. ...