The success of information system development projects is critically dependent on arriving at a shared understanding of the desired outcome by all project stakeholders. To communicate such understanding among stakeholders, development artifacts such as design specifications, prototypes, and user stories are created. This paper presents a new project management tool to measure and ensure common ...

The recent past has seen a proliferation in the amount of digital video content being created and consumed. This is perhaps being driven by the increase in audiovisual quality, as well as the ease with which production, reproduction and consumption is now possible. The widespread use of digital video, as opposed its analogue counterpart, has opened up a plethora of previously impossible applica...

‘‘Daddy, tell me a story. A good one.’’ An engineer pauses at the request. We know how to measure and build many things. But imagining, crafting, and telling a story? That is hard. If you are building or researching any aspect of multimedia, however, then you should be thinking about how your work helps both you and the user experience a story. Telling stories is an important part of how we com...

The DoubleTalk articulatory corpus was collected at the Edinburgh Speech Production Facility (ESPF) using two synchronized Carstens AG500 electromagnetic articulometers. The first release of the corpus comprises orthographic transcriptions aligned at phrasal level to EMA and audio data for each of 6 mixed-dialect speaker pairs. It is available from the ESPF online archive. A variety of tasks we...

• Topology of G/T : Flag manifolds G/T have cohomology only in even degrees, with Euler characteristic the degree of the Weyl group. The Euler characteristic can be calculated by a Lefschetz fixed point argument (see Adams [1], pgs. 90-92 for this). Identifying the flag manifold with a co-adjoint orbit, there is a Morse theory calulation of the cohomology that goes back to Bott, for an outline ...

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 339 18 JANUARY 2013 247 COVER Map of highest surface temperature in the north polar region of Mercury superimposed on topography measured by the MESSENGER spacecraft. Red areas surrounding the pole (center) reach temperatures above 450 K. Blue and purple areas inside polar impact craters never exceed 100 K and are suffi ciently cold to harbor water ice and frozen ...

We survey the recent work on micro-UAVs, a fast-growing field in robotics, outlining the opportunities for research and applications, along with the scientific and technological challenges. Micro-UAVs can operate in three-dimensional environments, explore and map multi-story buildings, manipulate and transport objects, and even perform such tasks as assembly. While fixed-base industrial robots ...

In allegories polysemy relates not only to the context and the audience’s understanding but also to the structural characters of these texts. This paper investigates the function of structural and narrative properties in the creation of multiple interpretations of an allegory. Focusing on the events and following a unique story-line is the most important trait in helping to read the alleg...