This work illustrates the design of a context-aware software architecture supporting the narration of interactive stories for mobile users. The peculiarity of this work is the use of an extended set of context dimensions, including the surrounding environment and the user social network, for enhancing the engagement and the emotional impact on the users experiencing the story.

This paper focuses on relationships between agent models and their physical realisations. Approaches on reduction from philosophical literature are analysed in a formalised manner, and extended by incorporating context-dependency w.r.t. specific makeups for their realisations. It is shown how these context-dependent reduction approaches can be translated into each other and how they can be appl...

The scope for information retrieval applications continues to growth to encompass larger and more diverse archives and new computing environments. The consequent increased demands on information retrieval systems continue to motivate research into new and more efficient search technologies. Users of information retrieval systems work in personal and physical contexts, while the documents contai...

We present a semantic context management framework named ContextTorrent, which can make various types of context information be semantically searchable and sharable among local and remote context-aware applications. We implement this framework on the Google Android platform with its elegant application support. An open source RDF parser has been extended to effectively get RDF triples from file...

This ethnographic vignette details the way a difficult crisis in an extended Kosovar family was managed by its own members within the mandates of that overtly patriarchal culture while creating important avenues for change. The cultural and historic context for these events is provided, and the nuances of this solution-oriented, culturally congruent, "natural" (i.e., not in a therapeutic contex...

in this paper, we have proposed a new iterative method for finding the solution of ordinary differential equations of the first order. in this method we have extended the idea of variational iteration method by changing the general lagrange multiplier which is defined in the context of the variational iteration method.this causes the convergent rate of the method increased compared with the var...

This paper presents a novel method for modeling phonetic context using linear context transforms. Initial investigations have shown the feasibility of synthesising context dependent models from context independent models through weighted interpolation of the peripheral states of a given hidden markov model with its adjacent model. This idea can be further extended, to maximum likelihood estimat...

Let Q be the set of all primitive words over a finite alphabet having at least two letters. In this paper, we study the language D(1) of all non-overlapping (d-primitive) words, which is a proper subset of Q. We show that D(1) is a contextsensitive langauage but not a deterministic context-free language. Further it is shown that [D(1)]n is not regular for n ≥ 1. key words: primitive word, non-o...