We describe and report initial results on using virtual machines as a vehicle to deploy machine translation technology to the marketplace. Virtual machines can bridge the gap between the computing infrastructure typically used in research environments and commodity PCs typical of office environments. A key component is the compact representation of the underlying databases and models in tightly...

A virtual environment supporting communication and cooperation can increase both the effectiveness and the acceptance of multi-user applications. This paper describes the basic concepts as well as a prototypical implementation of such an environment based on a virtual office metaphor. Users, rooms, and documents are modelled in a rather abstract way, providing an intuitive but not necessarily r...

Our work is aimed at enabling a new style of virtual, distributed scientific research. We have designed, built, and deployed an interdisciplinary virtual observatory – an online service providing access to what appears to be an integrated collection of scientific data. The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory (VSTO) is a production semantic web data framework providing access to observational ...

VOFilter is an XML based filter developed by the Chinese Virtual Observatory project to transform tabular data files from VOTable format into OpenDocument format. VOTable is an XML format defined for the exchange of tabular data in the context of the Virtual Observatory (VO). It is the first Proposed Recommendation defined by International Virtual Observatory Alliance, and has obtained wide sup...

A mobile eye tracker was used to collect viewing behavior in a mixed reality immersive Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) environment to evaluate a design concept of a tourist information office. The synthetic office consists of physical artifacts and virtual contents projected onto three walls of a room-sized cube. A Think Aloud study was conducted with both a goal-oriented condition an...