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whitepaper Constraint Authoring System: An Empirical Evaluation2007-03-16 University of Canterbury
  Evaluation is an integral part of research that provides a true measure of effectiveness. This paper presents a study conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of CAS, a knowledge acquisition authoring system developed for generating the domain knowledge required for constraint-based tutoring systems with the assistance of a domain expert. The study involved a group of novice ITS authors composing domain models for adding two fractions. The results of the study showed that CAS was capable of generating highly accurate knowledge bases with considerably less effort than the effort required in manual composition.   
whitepaper Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard: Meeting the Challenge with Symantec Technology2006-12-01 Symantec
  At a high level, the 12 major security requirements under PCI (the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) seem fairly easy to implement and maintain. Upon closer examination, however, it becomes clear that attaining and maintaining compliance is a much more complex endeavor than it may seem. This paper breaks down each PCI requirement and details how Symantec solutions can help you get - and stay - compliant.

Tags: Storage Management, Document Management, Electronic Data Interchange, Authoring Systems, Security Standards, Security Tools, ROI - TCO, Strategic Planning, Best Practices, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Network Administration		   
whitepaper Modelling and Animation of Theatrical Greek Masks in an Authoring System2007-02-19 EUROGRAPHICS Association
  This paper describes an authoring system for modelling Greek virtual masks that express emotions for synchronising their facial movements with pre-recorded speech files, and for creating theatrical performances. The system is related to parametric modelling and includes three interfaces: Editor, Recorder and Virtual Theatre. In the Editor interface it is possible to create several different 3D masks from a unique mask basic model. In the Recorder it is possible to import the models created in the Editor and select eight expressions (neutral, anger, surprise, sadness, fear, joy, disgust, attention), as well as to create and save little alterations in these expressions, and to synchronise the facial movements with speech on the time-line of the system.   
whitepaper Anvil: VDP Segmented Workflow Toolset2007-02-07 Hewlett-Packard
  The segmented workflow approach and the Anvil toolset provide substantial advantages compared to current Variable Data Print (VDP) workflow solutions. Explicit separation of concerns and a more flexible interaction between the different parties involved are key aspects. The Anvil plugins for layout tools allow designers to create more sophisticated VDP templates than competing solutions, and lead to simplified real-world VDP solutions. In addition to the toolset, the underlying VDP document format - a combination of PPMLT and XSL-FO - ensures complete decoupling of the authoring environment from the later stages, reducing GA costs. The late binding stage opens the possibility of applying text adjustment procedures to automatically recover from some composition errors, increasing the accuracy and predictability of results.

Tags: Authoring Systems, Programming Languages		   
whitepaper Integrating Contextual Video Annotation Into Media Authoring for Video Podcasting and Digital Medical Records2007-01-22 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  This paper demonstrates how rich media annotation can enable two new applications for video podcasting and digital medical records. At WIAMIS 2004, the paper introduces an innovative video annotation technology called Active Shadows, which captures a virtual presence interacting with a displayed image and overlays on top of a digital image. With Active Shadows, the paper combines the expert opinion and presence (of a professor and doctor) with the informationally rich images (presentation slides and medical images, respectively). The paper identifies current forms of media whose value can be enhanced through this type of annotation, and introduce a basic workflow to produce new forms of media.

Tags: Authoring Systems, Multimedia		   
whitepaper Create Powerful Custom Tools Quickly With Rational Software Architect Version 7.0: Introduction to the Transformation Authoring Feature2007-01-09 IBM
  The world of a software developer or architect is a complex one, where one often needs to integrate different technologies that have never been combined before. With the overwhelming permutations of emerging and legacy technologies, even the best out-of-the-box tools for enterprise development can help only to a certain extent. IBM Rational Software Architect 7.0 includes a new feature called Transformation Authoring that allows one to create custom tools without any knowledge of Eclipse frameworks or the need for custom coding. It uses graphical tooling and templates that use simple XPath syntax. This paper explains the business case for this technology, describes how the Transformation Authoring feature works, and gives a step-by-step example that creates a simple tool for database access.

Tags: Software Engineering		   
whitepaper Escape From the Tower of London: History Comes Alive2007-01-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  HP Mediascape technology has brought the Jacobite Nithsdale and other ghosts from the Tower of London back to life in a new location-aware adventure game.   
whitepaper Structured Media for Authoring Multimedia Documents2007-01-01 French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
  This paper proposes a new way for authoring multimedia documents. It uses the concept of structured media that allows to deeper access into media objects. An experiment of structuring video in the authoring and presentation environment for multimedia documents is described. It allows the author to interactively specify various audiovisual structures. A video description and structuration model is used for the composition of video elements (character, shot, scene, etc.) with other media objects (text, sound, image, etc). Such a composition allows to easily realize attractive multimedia presentations where media stuffs can be synchronized in rich and various ways (spatio-temporal synchronization, temporal links, etc.).

Tags: Multimedia		   
whitepaper A SMIL-Based Multimedia Presentation Authoring System and Some Remarks on Future Extension of SMIL2007-01-01 University of Incheon
  This paper develops a multimedia presentation authoring system supporting a mechanism for conceptually representing the temporal relations of different media. The authoring system represents media (such as images, videos, sounds, etc.) as objects and provides various editing functionalities for temporal compositions and spatial compositions. It is based on the SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language). The system contains a temporal relation editor, a timeline editor, a layout editor, an attribute editor, a tag editor, a text editor, and a SMIL Object Manager. Among the many editors that make up the system, the temporal relation editor provides users with an intuitive mechanism for representing the conceptual flow of a presentation by simple and direct graphical manipulations. The SMIL Object Manager is responsible for the dynamic modification of each editor.

Tags: Multimedia		   
whitepaper Multilingual Authoring: The NAMIC Approach2007-01-01 University of Rome
  With increasing amounts of electronic information available, and the increase in the variety of languages used to produce documents of the same type, the problem of how to manage similar documents in different languages arises. This paper proposes an approach to processing /structuring text so that Multilingual Authoring (creating hypertext links) can be effectively carried out. This work, funded by the European Union, is applied to the Multilingual Authoring of news agency text. The paper has applied methods from Natural Language Processing, especially Information Extraction technology, to both monolingual and Multilingual Authoring.   


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