This research discusses the interactive synchronous e-learning system and its implications for corporate knowledge management. Using a case study of a Taiwanese Telecom company, qualitative data was gathered on the architecture, mechanisms, and KM implications of an interactive synchronous e-learning system in a business context. Following a case analysis, the summarization of the key contribut...

Highly interactive Web-based courseware allows for a more intuitive learning than nowadays textbooks. A high level of interaction and cooperation is crucial for the success in stirring up the participants’ emotions and involving him into self-acting studies. The basic requirements for the underlying programming architecture are interdisciplinary. We describe a general framework for rapid develo...

This paper presents a novel multimodal system applied to the setup and control of distributed interactive simulations. We have developed the QuickSet prototype, a pen/voice system running on a hand-held PC, communicating through a distributed agent architecture to NRaD's ~ LeatherNet system, a distributed interactive training simulator built for the US Marine Corps (USMC). The paper briefly des...

Machine learning is growing in importance in industry, the sciences, and many other fields. In many and perhaps most of these applications, users need to trade off competing goals and build different model prototypes rapidly, which requires much human intelligence and is time consuming. Therefore, interactive customization and optimization aims to help expert incorporate secondary criteria into...

In this work the development and deployment of a new concept of cartoon-generation on a mobile phone is presented. An interactive multimedia application was designed for a push-approach of sending short e-cartoons from a mobile phone to a central WEB server. The concept of a unique cartoon-generator will be discussed. The multimedia Authoring Environment Flash was used for the interactive appli...

We present a game-based architecture for developing complex interactive components in computational logic. Interactive components are developed either as players making moves according to the rules of a game or as umpires that enforce the rules, thereby controlling the behaviours of players. Centralised organisations based on umpires and decentralised organisations based on autonomous players c...

This article presents an original method using high level Petri nets for the specification and design of interactive systems. We suggest an agent oriented architecture based on the classic components of an interactive application (application, dialogue control, interface with the application). Our approach is validated via the specification and design of a human-machine interface used in the su...

Constraints provide a natural formalism for user-interface design and graphical layout. Recent results and algorithms from symbolic computation and geometry provide new techniques to manipulate linear arithmetic constraints. We show how these results can be applied to interactive graphical user-interfaces and how they extend the capabilities of previous interactive constraint-based user interfa...

Apache Drill is a distributed system for interactive ad-hoc analysis of large-scale datasets. Designed to handle up to petabytes of data spread across thousands of servers, the goal of Drill is to respond to ad-hoc queries in a low-latency manner. In this article, we introduce Drill's architecture, discuss its extensibility points, and put it into the context of the emerging offerings in the in...

Probabilistic models of sentence comprehension are increasingly relevant to questions concerning human language processing. However, such models are often limited to syntactic factors. This paper introduces a novel sentence processing model that consists of a parser augmented with a probabilistic logic-based model of coreference resolution, which allows us to simulate how context interacts with...