abstract victoria d. alexander, contemporary sociologist, presented her “modified cultural diamond” in completing and criticizing two approaches of reflect and forming and emphasizes key role of art world’s distributors.reflect approach is based on this fact that art always narrates from society and forming approach covering eide range of theories. their common is the idea that art having influ...

We investigate line drawings as an alternative method to train an object detector. While traditional approaches rely on learning an object class from example images, we make use of abstraction provided by the artist. Our object class of choice are cats, posing a challenging detection problem by a variety of poses and appearances. In order to deal with this flexibility, and similar to part-based...

This contribution presents an ongoing study focused on how location awareness feature modifies collaboration in the context of mobile computing. First it describes the environment we designed and implemented in the form of a mobile game called CatchBob!. This application running on TabletPCs engages groups of three participants in a collaborative treasure hunt over our campus. The game is used ...

Until now, computer vision and machine learning techniques barely contributed to the archaeological domain. The use of these techniques can support archaeologists in their assessment and classification of archaeological finds. The paper illustrates the use of computer vision techniques for archaeology with two examples: (1) a content-based image retrieval system for historical glass and (2) an ...

The Agora system presented in this paper is a tool devoted to business-to-business electronic commerce. Agora is composed of two main parts. The first one, called the virtual table, is a conferencing tool which allows negotiations between business partners. The second one is a collaborative document writing tool which supports editing of business contracts. Agora is independent of hardware, ope...

We describe an agent based artist-critic simulation. Artist agents use a swarm based evolutionary art system to evolve images that try to match their preferences. Preferred images are submitted to critic agents who then decide, accordingly to their own criteria, which images should be displayed in a public gallery. The purpose of our model is to enable the implementation of a variety of behavio...

ASCII art is a type of graphic art that presents a picture with printable characters. It is commonly used for graphical presentations in text-based media. ASCII art can be categorized into two major styles: one is tone based, and the other is structure based. Tone-based ASCII art represents the intensity distribution of the original images by using the density of the characters. In contrast, st...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This case discusses the architecture and application of privacy and trust issues in the Connected Mobility Digital Ecosystem (CMDE) for the University of Wollongong's main campus community. The authors describe four mobile location-sensitive, context-aware applications (app(s)) that are designed for iPhones: a public transport passenger information app; a route-based private v...

the main purpose of this applied research is to investigate the factors affecting rural female entrepreneur’s business performance. based on theoretical literature, business performance is affected by several factors such as demographic characteristics, environmental factors, motives, social networks, skills, human capital and social learning. this research has been conducted applying a surveyi...