The addition of global illumination can dramatically increase the realism achievable when rendering virtual environments. In particular with interactive applications we expect the environment to reflect changes in the scene due to global lighting effects instead of it being just a static backdrop. However, a sufficiently fast and accurate computation of global illumination at interactive rates ...

Neural machine translation systems require large amounts of training data and resources. Even with this, the quality of the translations may be insufficient for some users or domains. In such cases, the output of the system must be revised by a human agent. This can be done in a post-editing stage or following an interactive machine translation protocol. We explore the incremental update of neu...

OBJECTIVES To promote independent self-study involving problem solving and decision analysis in the undergraduate medical curriculum, we have developed a series of interactive web-based clinical case studies. METHODS An initial needs assessment was performed to determine students' attitudes to e-learning. From these results we designed a series of 30 interactive case studies for delivery from...

The combined Air Force, Army, and Navy Surgeons General are now achieving integrated oversight of their medical supplies and resources. This allows a Business Intelligence approach to decisions which is now being enhanced with real-time interactive data-mining tools and executive dashboards. Resources can be efficiently reallocated to military, veteran, family, or civilian purposes, inventories...

Renewable energy is the energy generated from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides and geothermal heat. Turkey has a great renewable energy potential with its natural resources such as biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind. Selection among energy alternatives is a multicriteria decision-making problem with conflicting and interactive criteria. In this paper, the best...

The Internet provides resources for physicians, but there isn't yet a comprehensive support system for medical and nursing students. Moreover the knowledge of English language is often scarce in young Italian students, so most of the available resources are not really useful. This project aims at the establishment of a distributed framework of interactive courses and mentoring facilities among ...

Developing interactive systems is a very tough task. In particular, the development of user interfaces (UIs) is one of the most time consuming aspects in the software lifecycle. Software development is more and more moving toward composite applications. In this paper, we present a mashup model that enables the integration at the presentation layer of specific UI components. As application of th...

Nowadays people are ever more exposed to ubiquitous environments, which are characterized by the availability of various interactive devices with different interaction resources. Thus, the possibility to opportunistically exploit the resources that such contexts offer (e.g., moving from stationary to mobile devices) is invaluable for providing an effective interaction experience to the user. In...

gCube Information Retrieval Engine differentiates from federated search. Data and services are scattered over the infrastructure instead of being contained in confined sub-sections, made accessible via narrow interfaces. Grid, where gCube runs, is not meant for interactive work, but offers a vast pool of resources for processing large amounts of information. In such domain it comes as natural c...

Advances in voice-recognition platforms have led to new possibilities in deploying automated voice-interactive engines for Web content. We present Voice2Web, an architecture allowing to manage access to the resources of the World Wide Web using voice interaction. It rests on the VoiceXML standard and enables rapid composition of dynamic services querying the Web resources. We demonstrate its us...