Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Virtual Media
Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Virtual Media

Author: Rae Earnshaw

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1447106776

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As the Internet and World Wide Web continue to influence corporate and private activities, systems are needed that mimic human-to-human interface, to simplify the human-to-computer interface. Intelligent Agents are likely to play a significant role in the design of such interfaces, and this book explores how they could influence media-based systems. Throughout, the text maps out the considerable advances that have already been made, paving the way toward a future where computers will be truly described as an intelligent aid to our personal and business lives.

Intelligent Virtual Agents
Intelligent Virtual Agents

Author: Angelica de Antonio

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-06-30

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 3540448128

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Predicting the future is a risky game, and can often leave egg on one’s face. However when the organizers of the Intelligent Virtual Environments workshop at the European Conference on AI predicted that the field of Intelligent Virtual Agents would grow and mature rapidly, they were not wrong. From this small workshop spawned the successful one on Intelligent Virtual Agents, held in Manchester in 1999. This volume comprises the proceedings of the much larger third workshop held in Madrid, September 10 11, 2001, which successfully achieved the aim of taking a more international focus, bringing together researchers from all over the world. We received 35 submissions from 18 different countries in America, Asia, and Africa. The 16 papers presented at the conference and published here show the high quality of the work that is currently being done in this field. In addition, five contributions were selected as short papers, which were presented as posters at the workshop. This proceedings volume also includes the two prestigious papers presented at the workshop by our keynote speakers: Daniel Thalmann, Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne and Director of the Computer Graphics Lab., who talked about The Foundations to Build a Virtual Human Society. Jeff Rickel, Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, who debated about Intelligent Virtual Agents for Education and Training: Opportunities and Challenges.

Broadband Applications and the Digital Home
Broadband Applications and the Digital Home

Author: John Turnbull

Publisher: IET

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0852964285

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This fascinating book explores the technological challenges and applications of providing fast, 'always-on' internet connections to the home. Current delivery mechanisms of broadband into and around the home are explored in depth.

Artificial Intelligence Illuminated
Artificial Intelligence Illuminated

Author: Ben Coppin

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 9780763732301

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Artificial Intelligence Illuminated presents an overview of the background and history of artificial intelligence, emphasizing its importance in today's society and potential for the future. The book covers a range of AI techniques, algorithms, and methodologies, including game playing, intelligent agents, machine learning, genetic algorithms, and Artificial Life. Material is presented in a lively and accessible manner and the author focuses on explaining how AI techniques relate to and are derived from natural systems, such as the human brain and evolution, and explaining how the artificial equivalents are used in the real world. Each chapter includes student exercises and review questions, and a detailed glossary at the end of the book defines important terms and concepts highlighted throughout the text.

Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Intelligent Multimodal Interaction Environments
Human-Computer Interaction. HCI Intelligent Multimodal Interaction Environments

Author: Julie A. Jacko

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-08-24

Total Pages: 1049

ISBN-13: 3540731105

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Here is the third of a four-volume set that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007, held in Beijing, China, in July 2007, jointly with eight other thematically similar conferences. It covers multimodality and conversational dialogue; adaptive, intelligent and emotional user interfaces; gesture and eye gaze recognition; and interactive TV and media.

Intelligent Computing & Optimization
Intelligent Computing & Optimization

Author: Pandian Vasant

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-27

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 3030009793

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This book includes innovative research work presented at ICO’2018, the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization, held in Pattaya, Thailand on October 4–5, 2018. The conference presented topics ranging from power quality, reliability, security assurance, cloud computing, smart cities, renewable energy, agro-engineering, smart vehicles, deep learning, block chain, power systems, AI, machine learning, manufacturing systems, and big-data analytics. This volume focuses on subjects related to innovative computing, uncertainty management and optimization approaches to real-world problems in big-data, smart cities, sustainability, meta-heuristics, cyber-security, IoTs, economics and finance, renewable energy, energy and electricity systems, and block chain. Presenting cutting-edge methodologies with real-world application problems and their solutions, the book is useful for researchers, managers, executives, students, academicians, practicing scientists, and decision makers from all around the globe. It offers the academic and the applied communities a compendium and a research resource with significant insights and inspiration for innovative scientific education, investigation and collaboration, to overcome “hard problems” among the emerging challenges today and in the future.

Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction
Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction

Author: Lola Cañamero

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2008-11-27

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9027289832

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Animated interactive characters and robots that are able to function in human social environments are being developed by a large number of research groups worldwide. Emotional expression, as a key element of human social interaction and communication, is often added in an attempt to make them appear more natural to us. How can such artefacts be given emotional displays that are believable and acceptable to humans? This is the central question of Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction. The ability to express and recognize emotions is a fundamental aspect of social interaction. Not only is it a central research question, it has been explored in animated films, dance, and other expressive arts for a much longer period. This book is unique in presenting a multi-disciplinary approach to animation in its broadest sense: from internal mechanisms to external displays, not only from a graphical perspective, but more generally examining how to give characters an “anima”, so that they appear as life-like entities and social partners to humans. (Series B)

Handbook of Digital Human Modeling
Handbook of Digital Human Modeling

Author: Vincent G. Duffy

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 1034

ISBN-13: 1420063529

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The rapid introduction of sophisticated computers, services, telecommunications systems, and manufacturing systems has caused a major shift in the way people use and work with technology. It is not surprising that computer-aided modeling has emerged as a promising method for ensuring products meet the requirements of the consumer. The Handbook of D

Applied Genetic Algorithm and Its Variants
Applied Genetic Algorithm and Its Variants

Author: Nilanjan Dey

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-07-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9819934281

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This book provides fundamental concepts related to various types of genetic algorithms and practical applications in various domains such as medical imaging, manufacturing, and engineering design. The book discusses genetic algorithms which are used to solve a variety of optimization problems. The genetic algorithms are demonstrated to offer reliable search in complex spaces. The book presents high-quality research work by academics and researchers which is useful for young researchers and students.

Ruling Distributed Dynamic Worlds
Ruling Distributed Dynamic Worlds

Author: Peter Sapaty

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2005-06-24

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0471656364

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A sequel to Mobile Processing in Distributed and Open Environments,this title introduces an extended, universal WAVE-WP model fordistributed processing and control in dynamic and open worlds ofany natures. The new control theory and technology introduced inthe book can be widely used for the design and implementation ofmany distributed control systems, such as intelligent networkmanagement for the Internet, mobile cooperative robots, RapidReaction forces, future Combat Systems, robotics and AI, NMD, spaceresearch on other planets, and other applications. This title: * Demonstrates a much simpler and more efficient applicationprogramming * Cultivates a new kind of thinking about how large dynamic systemsshould be designed, organized, tasked, simulated, andcontrolled * Introduces an extended, universal WAVE-WP model for distributedprocessing * Compares the universal WAVE-WP model to other existing systemsused in intelligent networking