Traditional tour route planning mostly depends on the planner’s experience. However, whether tour route planning is appropriate or not has a considerable impact on the time and cost of the tour. Good planning can save unnecessary waiting time, avoid wasted operating costs, and contribute to the enhancement of the quality of tourism. Therefore, this study applied the ant colony optimization algo...

This paper describes some recent results regarding the employment of natural language processing techniques in the FAQ FINDER system. FAQ FINDER is a natural language question-answering system that uses files of frequently-asked questions as its knowledge base. Unlike AI questionanswering systems that focus on the generation of new answers, FAQ FINDER retrieves existing ones found in frequently...

Pronunciation-translated names (P-Names) bring more ambiguities to Chinese word segmentation and generic named entity recognition. As there are few annotated resources that can be used to develop a good P-Name extraction system, this paper presents a bootstrapping algorithm, called PN-Finder, to tackle this problem. Starting from a small set of P-Name characters and context cue-words, the algor...

The paper discusses the disk covering tour problem for reducing the mobile devices’ mobile electricity costs consumed in the wireless sensor network. The DCTP discusses how to find a tour whose cost is the minimum under the condition of the defined initial points and some planar points. The tour starts from the initial stop point. After passing many stop points, the tour returns to the initial ...

Sensor models directly influence the efficiency and robustness of the estimation processes used in robot and object localization. Therefore this paper focusses on a probabilistic range finder sensor model for dynamic environments. The dynamic nature results from the presence of unmodeled and possibly moving objects and people. The goal of this paper is twofold. First of al we present experiment...

Online museums could benefit from digital "lifelike" characters in order to guide users to virtual tours and to customize the tour information to users' interests. Digital characters have been explored in online museum web sites with different degrees of interaction and modes of communication. Such research, however, does not explore interactive "conversational" characters. The main interest of...