Volume 2, Number 1, March 2008

Ronnie B. Wilbur, Evguenia Malaia: Contributions of Sign Language Research to Gesture Understanding: What Can Multimodal Computational Systems Learn from Sign Language Research. 5-19
Matt Huenerfauth: Spatial, Temporal, and Semantic Models for American Sign Language Generation: Implications for Gesture Generation. 21-45
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Langxuan Yin: The Role of Gesture in Document Explanation by Embodied Conversational Agents. 47-70
Werner Breitfuss, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka: Automatic Generation of Gaze and Gestures for Dialogues between Embodied Conversational Agents. 71-90
Beatriz López-Mencía, Álvaro Hernández Trapote, David Díaz Pardo de Vera, Luis A. Hernández Gómez, María del Carmen Rodríguez Gancedo, José Relaño-Gil: Evaluation of ECA Gesture Strategies for Robust Human-Machine Interaction. 91-114
Stefan Kopp, Kirsten Bergmann, Ipke Wachsmuth: Multimodal Communication from Multimodal Thinking - towards an Integrated Model of Speech and Gesture Production. 115-136
Helman I. Stern, Juan P. Wachs, Yael Edan: Designing Hand Gesture Vocabularies for Natural Interaction by Combining Psycho-Physiological and Recognition Factors. 137-160
Volume 2, Number 2, June 2008

Xiaomeng Wu, Wenli Zhang, Shunsuke Kamijo, Masao Sakauchi: Fuzzy Mode Similarity Measure Based on Measure of Illumination Instability. 165-189
Kikuka Miura, Ichiro Yamada, Hideki Sumiyoshi, Nobuyuki Yagi: Identification of Names and Actions of Principal Objects in TV Program Segments Using Closed Captions. 191-206
Satoru Mega, Younes Fadil, Arata Horie, Kuniaki Uehara: Assist in Cooking: Action Support System for Interactive Self-Training. 207-233
Martin Eisenhardt, Wolfgang Müller, Daniel Blank, Soufyane El Allali, Andreas Henrich: Clustering-Based, Load Balanced Source Selection for CBIR in P2P Networks. 235-252
Christof Müller, Iryna Gurevych, Max Mühlhäuser: Closing the Vocabulary Gap for Computing Text Similarity and Information Retrieval. 253-272
Weiqin Ying, Yuanxiang Li, Phillip C.-Y. Sheu: A GA-Based Approach to Optimizing Combinational Queries in SCDL. 273-289
Shu Wang, Rouh-Mei Hu, Han C. W. Hsiao, David A. Hecht, Ka-Lok Ng, Rong-Ming Chen, Phillip C.-Y. Sheu, Jeffrey J. P. Tsai: Using SCDL for Integrating Tools and Data for Complex Biomedical Applications. 291-308
Volume 2, Number 3, September 2008


Maria E. Niessen, Leendert van Maanen, Tjeerd C. Andringa: Disambiguating Sound through Context. 327-341
Brian Harrington, Stephen Clark: Asknet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks. 343-364
Dmitriy Dligach, Martha Palmer: Improving Word Sense Disambiguation with Automatically Retrieved Semantic Knowledge. 365-380
Ulrich Küster, Birgitta König-Ries: Towards Standard Test Collections for the Empirical Evaluation of Semantic Web Service Approaches. 381-402
Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d'Amato, Floriana Esposito: Induction of Classifiers through Non-Parametric Methods for Approximate Classification and Retrieval with Ontologies. 403-423
Volume 2, Number 4, December 2008

Juergen Rilling, René Witte, Philipp Schügerl, Philippe Charland: Beyond Information Silos - an Omnipresent Approach to Software Evolution. 431-468
Bin Guo, Satoru Satake, Michita Imai: Lowering the Barriers to Participation in the Development of Human-Artifact Interaction Systems. 469-502
Paul W. Schermerhorn, Matthias Scheutz: Natural Language Interactions in Distributed Networks of Smart Devices. 503-524
Stefano Valtolina: Design of Knowledge Driven Interfaces in Cultural Contexts. 525-553



