During interpersonal conversation, both children and adults adapt the basic acoustic-prosodic features of their speech to converge withthose of their conversational partner. In this study, 7-to-10-year-old children i...
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During interpersonal conversation, both children and adults adapt the basic acoustic-prosodic features of their speech to converge withthose of their conversational partner. In this study, 7-to-10-year-old children interacted with a conversational interface in which animated characters used text-to-speech output (TTS) to answer questions about marine biology. Analysis of children's speech to different animated characters revealed a 29% average change in energy when they spoke to an extroverted loud software partner (E), compared with an introverted soft-spoken one (I). the majority, or 77% of children, adapted their amplitude toward their partner's TTS voice. these adaptations were bi-directional, with increases in amplitude observed during I to E condition shifts, and decreases during E to I shifts. Finally, these results generalized across different user groups and TTS voices. Implications are discussed for guiding children's speech to remain within system processing bounds, and for the future development of robust and adaptive conversational interfaces.
Recently, action language BC, which combines the attractive features of action languages B and C+, was proposed. While BC allows Prolog-style recursive definitions that are not available in C+, it is less expressive t...
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Building large scale applications is nowadays a complex challenge. Such complexity is determined by several factors like distributed application development, deployment or management, to name a few. Adaptive middlewar...
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this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7thinternationalconference on Model Transformation, ICMT 2014, held in York, UK, in July 2014. the 14 revised papers were carefully selected from 38 submissions....
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(数字)9783319087894
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(纸本)9783319087887
this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7thinternationalconference on Model Transformation, ICMT 2014, held in York, UK, in July 2014. the 14 revised papers were carefully selected from 38 submissions. the papers have been organized in topical sections on model transformation testing, foundations of model synchronization, applications of model synchronization and tracing and reverse engineering of transformations.
By 2030 greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced by at least 55%. Despite hardware becoming more energy-efficient (Koomey's law), the ever-increasing reliance on computer technology has increased the energy usag...
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(纸本)9798400701399
By 2030 greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced by at least 55%. Despite hardware becoming more energy-efficient (Koomey's law), the ever-increasing reliance on computer technology has increased the energy usage due to ICT significantly. In software engineering (SE), there are many choices from programming languages to development patterns that influence energy efficiency. Recent research inspired our work on incorporating energy efficiency into SE education. An international group of researchers formulated initial recommendations for introducing green and sustainable software engineering [4] to students. An EU-US team formulated more refined recommendations for introducing green thinking as modules in existing courses [3]. ICT4S'22 best paper addressed HES eco-anxiety when teaching sustainability [2]. In this work we report on the experience of introducing reflection on energy efficiency into the default requirements of a SE course, and how that influenced students to address energy efficiency in their projects. Out of 8 teams, 7 implemented at least a small energy-efficient component. However, as one group donated to a climate charity in bitcoins, we need more ways to raise awareness.
Extensive research and development efforts have been dedicated to the investigation and advancement of the load commutation method-based automatic commutation device (CD) as a means to mitigate three-phase imbalance i...
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Sparse matrices emerge in a number of problems in science and engineering. Typically the efficiency of solvers for such problems depends crucially on the distances between the first non-zero element in each row and th...
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this paper presents the computation of the set of optimal solutions of a Fuzzy Linear programming model with constraints that involve uncertainty, by means of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy sets. By applying convex optimizatio...
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the software industry is pinning its hopes for future reuse and productivity gains on component-based software development. However, to date the component paradigm has only really penetrated the implementation and dep...
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(纸本)3540434836
the software industry is pinning its hopes for future reuse and productivity gains on component-based software development. However, to date the component paradigm has only really penetrated the implementation and deployment phases of the software life-cycle, and does not yet play a major role in the earlier analysis and design activities of large software projects. this is evidenced by the fact that in today's technology being a "component" usually means being implemented as a JavaBeans, a COM object or a COBRA application. this tutorial will present a new method for component-based software engineering, known as KobrA, which supports a higher-level, model-driven representation of components and thus enables the benefits of components to be realized throughout the software life-cycle. the method thus provides a component-oriented way of developing model. driven architectures (MDA).
In this paper we describe a cutting plane heuristic algorithm for the Time Dependent Chinese Postman Problem. this algorithm is based on the facial structure of the time dependent postman polyhedron and on the simplex...
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